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Cars are a dead-end technology that leave too many people dead by collisions and even more from unsustainable infrastructure.
Based.
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.
Speaking my love language.
Good news. BEVs save the car industry, which is destroying cities, but it really hurts the oil industry, which destroys the world.
What are BEVs?
Battery Electric Vehicles
Oh, instead of ones that convert petrol to electricity?
Instead of plugin hybrids, which have both a combustion engine for petrol and a relatively large rechargeable battery. Also it does not include hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
I thought just “EV” didn’t include hybrids
BEV: battery-electric
FCEV: fuel-cell electric (hydrogen)
(P)HEV: (plug in) hybrid-electric
All of them are part of the EVs.
TIL
The cold weather there is terrible for Lithium batteries. This plan will never hold with current EV tech
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?
The cold weather there was terrible for gas engines too. It’s definitely viable with what we have.
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.
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.
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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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.
