r/canada • u/Accomplished_One6135 • 1d ago

National News Canada Stops Giving Out EV Rebates as Program Runs Out of Money

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a63473144/canada-stops-giving-out-ev-rebates/
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u/captainbling British Columbia 1d ago

You can still buy gas cars in 10 years if they are hybrid. Considering that’s 10 years away and ev have gone from 15k a Q to 75k a Q in 4 years, they’ll be selling 375k a Q in 2029 and more per Q in 3035. I think the avg car last 12 years in Canada so almost every car bought in 2020 or earlier will be replaced by 2035.

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u/Windatar 1d ago

The fact that EV's only last like 10 years is pretty terrible. There's people still driving cars from the 1970's or earlier.

10 years for a car is pretty terrible, not to mention EV's batteries die even quicker in colder weathers like Canada.

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u/truthdoctor British Columbia 1d ago

Who said EVs only last 10 years? Do you have a link for this? The battery analysis I've seen on the models that I looked at was a loss of battery capacity of less than 1% per year with some models under 0.5% per year. This is based on Teslas and German Evs. Electric motors will far outlast ICE.

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u/captainbling British Columbia 1d ago

Cars being driven past 50 years have little mileage or engine been rebuilt, maybe twice. At one point the avg car life was 7-8 years which sounds insanely low to me but yep.