Actual good plan:
- Announce that the 401 will be permanently closed on Dec 31, 2024.
- Do NOT add more lanes to the 403 or the 407.
- Start construction of both a high speed, limited stop, rail line and a moderate speed, frequent stop rail line, where the 401 used to be on Jan 2, 2025.
Cars are a dead-end technology that leave too many people dead by collisions and even more from unsustainable infrastructure.
Based.
This is already ded. Anything a decade out will never make it
It’s not a decade out though; it starts phasing in in 2026:
Zero-emission vehicles - which include battery electric, plug-in and hydrogen models - must represent 20 per cent of all new car sales in 2026, 60 per cent in 2030 and 100 per cent in 2035, the source said on condition of anonymity.
It’s crazy to think how far BEV range will be by then too.
Unfortunately, I’m sure far right wing nutjobs will still convince themselves somehow that masculinity is dependent on owning a diesel/petrol engine
There’s also a good chance far right wing nutjobs will run Canada after the next election and make pollution mandatory to pwn the libs.
Gunna go hard badgering everyone I know to vote this time around.
Really based move from Canada.
It’s not. It’s just acknowledging the reality that with a lot of countries (including the EU) and several states of their southern neighbour putting bans on combustion-engines in place for 2030-2036 that industry will simply be dead.
Not banning them by 2035 would have the exact same result as you simply don’t buy anything but an EV when that’s the only option left by then.
Liberals announce new thing for Conservatives to roll back in 2026
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They’re looking pretty decent in polling numbers so it’s prudent to be wary.
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Zero-emission vehicles - which include battery electric, plug-in and hydrogen models - must represent 20 per cent of all new car sales in 2026, 60 per cent in 2030 and 100 per cent in 2035, the source said on condition of anonymity.
So “plug-in” would be PHEVs I’m assuming?
Yes. Same as California rules.
The cold weather there is terrible for Lithium batteries. This plan will never hold with current EV tech
The cold weather there was terrible for gas engines too. It’s definitely viable with what we have.
I drive an EV in northern Norway. No problemo. Most new cars sold in Norway are EVs.
This is great news to me. I have been thinking that they were doomed in cold weather. Maybe they are well insulated?
You would want one that has a heat pump. It does lose range in cold weather of course, but function is never a problem. Mine has a range of 400-500km in summer, and 300-350km in winter.
That said, it doesn’t get colder than -15–20°c where I live.
