Transport Canada set targets to have 10 per cent of all light-duty cars be electric by 2025, 30 per cent by 2030 and 100 per cent by 2040. The most recent analysis suggests Canada will only reach between four and six per cent by 2025 and 10 per cent by 2030.
"We know that additional measures are needed to achieve our sales targets," said she said in her written brief to the committee Oct. 26. The rebates currently offer up to $5,000 for buying a fully electric car and up to $2,500 for plug-in hybrid models. The maximum purchase price of the lowest-end model can't be over $45,000.
"It's been an incredibly popular program," he told The Canadian Press in an interview. "It's something that I would hopefully like to see continued, but it is something that we're looking at." An electric car mandate that legislates the sales targets is also something that should be considered, she said. Quebec and British Columbia, the only two provinces with both provincial rebates and sales quotas, also accounted for almost eight in 10 electric car purchases.
The group said there are 168,000 electric vehicles on Canadian roads now, less than one per cent of the 23 million light-duty vehicles registered in total.
Source: Energy Industry News (energyindustrynews.net)
cause we are taxed to dead just for heating our homes and we stopped caring
Sure let’s all abandon our 60k vehicles and spend another 60k on electric then another 10k on a home charging station. This makes perfect sense and completely affordable. 🤨
With the price of electricity in Ontario I would not even consider purchasing an electric vehicle.
Wow, didn’t see that coming
Good I hope we never hit these stupid targets
Maybe Canada needs to build an electric car for the Canadian market at a Canadian price rather than subsidize foreign manufacturers.
Who cares
nofuckingshit
Take the hint. Not very practical vehicles in this country.
And I'll still be driving my 05 2500 truck lmao.
Good, less cancer from the exposure to high voltage.
It’s because premiers like fordnation removed the incentive.
someone should invent some sort of internal combustion engine for us
Canada's on track to become the next Venezuela, but sure let's worry about our electric car targets 🤡🇨🇦
Whodathunk batteries don't work so great in winter... BUILD A BULLET TRAIN!! Magnets!
Also backward politicians like fordnation makes this impossible! Ontario offered 14k rebate and he took it away! GretaThunberg savetheplanet climatechange Tesla elonmusk
We did have to redesign the batteries, didn't we?
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