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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.
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.