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If only they could mandate affordable housing :(
The ‘mandate’ is that 20% of sales be EVs in 2026, not 100%. Everybody cool your jets >

National Post has a long standing conservative bias, a headline like this is meant to rile people up who don't read the article. >

Riling up? I was like ‘wow finally a country making a meaningful effort’. Although I didn’t expect it would be possible if they had poor charging infrastructure right now. >

By riling up I mean the predictable rage that it’s meant to elicit : “convert 100% of new cars to EV in 4 years when we don’t have the infrastructure and EV still costs significantly more than ICE” … see the top comments. If we can’t do it in totality perfectly why are we doing it.
By saying convert a portion of sales or face fines it’s giving manufacturers a financial incentive to start lowering production costs and built an EV infrastructure, which if we can do for a reasonable percentage of new sales in 4 years sets us in a good path in 8 and 12 years >

Yeah I agree this is the more realistic solution. Definitely possible. It’s been easier in the Netherlands with our population density and thus infrastructure throughout the country, but we were at 34% electric cars of all new sales last year (21% full and 13% hybrid) >

If their charging infrastructure is anything like the USA then they’d better get moving on beefing it up. >

I really hope for one of those Canoo Ev pickups. Hopefully they get to market soon and at the price they were initially stated at. >

how the hell can they say that 20% have to be electric? so if for a given year for Ford, they've sold millions of cars, the vast majority of which are gasoline, you get to november and it's "nope we can only sell electric to meet our quota" for the rest of the year? or do they mean sales from manufacturer to dealership? >

They’ll sell fleet vehicles or lease them at a loss if they have to, to get their quota of EVs in. It’s why they used high mpg cars as loss leaders for years >

sweet >

Hubs and I had a heated garage built this past summer and we had an EV plug installed not because we have an electric car but for resale value. >

Husband* >

You better be.able to get one in a reasonable timeframe. >

Sales. People with gas vehicles will still be able to use them. >

This is exactly why I pre ordered the pick up truck :)
I figured it was only a matter of time until its mandated & they start charging people for having gas-cars. >

That day is way far away. This mandate only affects 20% of new car sales in 2026. Not used cars. 
And you’re already charged for having a gas car. You pay fuel taxes. 
Those will likely increase steadily, though, so you’re not incorrect.
Good move on the truck. >

Oh for sure.
I have a car that is 15 years old now.
They say its better to keep the car you have then get anything new including an EV.
For me... I had to look 5 years ahead and the best way to incentivize people to get ride of their gas-vehicles is to use financial incentives.  In Ontario the whole emissions test thing was a huge cash grab but it fixed that problem of no one fixing their engine knocks.  So if its gonna take 2-5 years to deliver a new EV... 5 years after that to put some BS fee on gas vehicles.. by year 10 (most vehicle life-spans) it'll end up saving me money
To clarify I got the EV-Pickup-Truck.  Its the cheapest projected EV. >

EVs typically break even with their ICE counterparts around 12k miles in terms of fuel costs. It takes longer for total break even costs simply because there is far less regular maintenance with EVs. >

Ya but they gonna do BS where you can't drive ICE vehicles in cities.
Big cities already have a war on cars as is.  
As it is a EV can fully recharge on 20$ where I live.  There is zero maintenance costs year over year.
You can take the current setup and it accept it in the current situation but with countries signing up for emission reductions they'll use it to charge ICE power trains to equalize the cost to incentivize EVs in some areas.
Where I live its clear that's the direction is going and I'm not going to "fight the fed".
Even if I'm wrong I test drove an EV and even if it costs more in the long term its so much more fun to drive.  The acceleration is unreal. I don't care about top speed... for the cost of a Mercedes I can accelerate like a ferrari for the energy cost of a fiat.  The cost benefit LGTM >

And it costs much less lifetime cost of ownership so you’re golden all around. 😉 >

Again "don't fight the fed"
Don't get me wrong. I think they'll price things in regionally so EVs don't make sense it'll be more expensive given local considerations.  But oil is still a pyramid scheme.  If everyone isn't buying in oil gets more expensive. Batteries have so much potential to get better.
Its now a game of energy musical chairs.  If you are willing to bet energy transmission/generation gets better it makes sense.  
If that plan fails you still own a vehicle thats fun to drive and at least I tried to help climate change rather than go "well it gonna cost me too much money meeeeeeeenh". I'd rather try and fail rather than give up before trying. >

I'm sure Brett Wilson and Theo Fleury are ecstatic !!! >

If Canada wasn’t so cold, I would pledge my allegiance to the Maple leaf. >

Insane. 
Where is the infrastructure. 
How is the electricity generated. 
How do people I high-rise buildings charge at home. 
Are they truly good for the environment. 
How does the less well off afford to buy them. >

-- signed, the oil industry >

Simply common sense. >

simply a non-progressive way of looking at the future.  do you think gas stations and tire stores popped up overnight when the automobile was introduced?
besides this is "new" vehicles, not "all" vehicles >

If the gov wants to roll out a gov funded program to install chargers everywhere ... including my 20 unit strata parking lot where no one wants to use strata contingency funds to build them ... then maybe it'll work. >

Exactly - the government also rolled out a government funded program decades ago to ensure that you have a gas station directly in your 20 unit strata parking lot too, I presume.
Unless, of course, you're not interacting here in good faith. >

It takes 5min to gas up for a week away from home. Nobody wants to hang out at a charge station, for an hour, a few blocks away to set themselves up. 
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see electric and hydrogen for the future. The vehicles are getting better. >

It takes literally 10-20 minutes at a charging station.  People grab coffees while they wait.
Trust me, you're making this out to be a much bigger issue than it really is. >

I don't think I'm being dramatic, and I'm happy to be proven wrong. There was a time when the charge time were longer. 
Thanks for the updated info >

Can you reference this study please. I'd like to read it. 
Thank you. >

No thanks. I will buy an electric vehicle once they figure out the range problems, especially in -30c and below temps. >

How naive. 
Just answer the one about people in high rise buildings. >

I live in apartment, not a big deal. Not like people have gas stations at home.
Being able to charge at home is something gas cars cannot match, fast charging isn't a problem at all. >

Far out. Tell me HOW do I charge an electric car at home if I don't have a garage or a driveway, or even a dedicated parking spot? >

Far out. I mean how do you even park your car without a dedicated parking spot? Lmao 
If you can't charge from home then you will just have to charge at public chargers. >

On the street. It's a reality many face. But yeah have a big laugh about it.
As for public chargers, that's good. Takes ages though. If it's available at shopping malls and the like that'd be great. But otherwise yeah people don't have hours to just hang around a charging station. >

What are you going to be doing that you expect to spend hours at the 15-20 minute charger?  Slow multi-hour chargers do exist.  Those are the ones you use when you're not waiting.  When you are waiting, you use the fast charger.
But really, the answer is to put in chargers where the on-street parking is.  Then you don't have to wait.
Or, if you reeeeeeealy can't do either of the above for some reason, then you may be a good candidate to buy a hybrid.  The EV mandate allows new hybrids to be sold. >

Does it really charge the whole battery in 20 minutes? That's not so bad then. Until of course you get to the place and there's people in front of you also waiting to charge.
As for waiting vs not waiting, if I am driving my car somewhere for the purpose of charging it, I am waiting there. That's a fact of life. If I get to plug it in literally anywhere I can park, then we're talking business. Currently I'm not seeing this, but I appreciate it's being implemented over time. But right now, if I decide I am getting an EV TODAY, I am struggling to find where to fill it up. As for "what I'm doing" that I can't wait, I'm working, that's what I'm doing. Or literally anything else.
I'm not shitting on electric cars here, I want one. But these are real factors that prevent someone from having one. It's ironic that the easiest way to "fill up" a car in this case, just plugging a cable in it, is also the hardest for a lot of people, because they are not gonna run a cable from their flat across the street where they park. And where it rains etc.
These are all reasonable concerns, and snark and condescension doesn't help the situation at all. Currently there is a petrol station at damn near every corner, and I know if I pull in even if there's someone in front of me it'll take a couple of minutes tops. Under 5 minutes if I'm there by myself and fill up my car, no worries. It's gonna be an uphill battle if electric cars don't provide the same ease of refueling as we've had for petrol cars for longer than any of us have been alive. >

Probably the most common mistake people make when looking at EV charging is asking how long for a full charge and then thinking that's how long they will spend waiting, either charging in town or during cross country trips. The answer for a full charge is I don't know, because getting a full charge is an action that no sane person would do while waiting, except perhaps in a few rare circumstances where they are desperate for every mile of range they can get.  The way you charge EVs is that you almost never charge above 80% when you're waiting.  5% to 80% is quick.  80% to 100% takes forever.  Just charge to 80% and leave and get on with your life.  Only charge above 80% when you're not waiting (busy eating at a restaurant while the car charges, or sleeping, or whatever).
There are older tech EVs that can not fast charge, or that have a very slow idea of fast charging, but it's safe to assume that by the time any of these EV mandates kick in that newer model years will be even faster.  The situation today is very different from 2 years ago, and the situation 2 years in the future will be very different from now.
In general, EVs are a bit more convenient for day-to-day life when you're not on a road trip (never wait at all in your home area, not even the 5 minutes a gas car takes, because it just charges while you sleep), and a bit less convenient on road trips (maybe 10% slower travel time).
A lot of the snark is just frustration.  There are tons of EV owners traveling across the continent every day without issue.  But every single social media post about EVs ends up brigaded with a hundred replies saying something like "LOL imagine driving across the country! You could only go 100 miles a day, then you'd have to get a hotel for your 12 hour recharge!"  Never mind that there are already plenty of EVs already doing NYC to LA in under 48 hours.  It's easy to get jaded at all the replies saying the same false things over and over again.  While there are some people, like yourself, that are interested in actually learning, most of them quickly make it clear that they're not interested in learning at all.  It's hard to tell them apart until you're a few replies in.  :)