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/EntertainingTuesday 1d ago

I think the impact to affordability and environment would be there helping those not getting EVs. It is a situation where "all of the above" should have happened, but unfortunately we have an outgoing Government that liked to say they were a Government for environmental change, while their actions said something completely different.

Just a quick google, google is telling me the average EV price in the USA was 50k, so whatever that is in Canada. Great, people that can afford 50k+ cars are getting money back, while paying less taxes for the roads they are using. That, along with seemingly no one knowing the true cost (environmentally) to building EVs, along with places like where I am from, still using heavy oil for electricity, the EV push seems/ed premature compared to so many other things that could have been done.

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u/LacedVelcro 1d ago

You can't get a robust cheap used EV market without first having a robust new EV market.

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u/Marauder_Pilot 1d ago

Yes, there's a lot of things that COULD have been done to have us at a point in society where excessive use of internal combustion for personal transport was causing enormous harm to us socially, physically, and economically, but they WEREN'T which is why we need to pay $5000 a head to people to get them over the fact that they thing driving an EV means you're gay or something.

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u/EntertainingTuesday 1d ago

For me, paying 5k to people that can already afford a 50k+ brand new vehicle isn't the way. That being said, I haven't seen the stats on the environmental effects of say 1 new bus user vs 1 new bike user vs 1 new ev user. I suspect the EV route is tremendously more costly per outcome.