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Canada faces declining EV interest, report shows, despite push to boost sales (globalnews.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by sik0fewl@kbin.social to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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The data found about 68 per cent of car shoppers in 2022 who did not own an EV showed an intent to purchase one, but that dropped to 56 per cent this year.

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[–] AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even 'low' gas prices can't compete. If I charge on a street charger from 0%, it costs about $16 for 550km of range. It's free at the office. I bought mine when free unlimited fast charging was offered. I've put nearly 60k kms on the vehicle, and I've paid less than $200 for 'fuel' over the last 4 years.

[–] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They can't compete in the long term.

In the short term I don't have 20k sitting around to save 6k a year in fuel.

[–] AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

That's why there needs to be aggressive rebates and incentives. It's the only way the market gets built. The dumbest part of this whole thing is how easy it would be to get it right.

  • Increase gas taxes quarterly, just a fraction of a percent.
  • Gas taxes go towards rebate programs, and to incentiveize manufacturers to manufacture locally.
  • Carbon taxes to go public transit - increasing the quantity and quality of service while reducing the end user costs to drive demand.
  • The more people who use new and improved public transit rather than buying cars to commute, the closer we get to climeate goals.
  • The more people who convert to EVs, the closer the country gets to climate goals.
  • Repeat this process so that every year, it gets more and more expensive to operate a vehicle that kills the planet, and it gets cheaper and cheaper to get where you need to be with green tech.