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