Canada to announce tariff plan for Chinese EV, battery imports following U.S., Europe Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is expected to announce this morning a plan for potential tariffs to protect Canada’s electric vehicle supply chain from unfair Chinese competition. Freeland and International Trade Minister Mary Ng are making a joint announcement this morning following moves … Read more
Ottawa is spending $1.7M for 10 new jobs at a pasta plant. Are these corporate subsidies worth it? Feds and Ontario also doling out $5B for 1,000 EV plant-related jobs, or $5M per job Mark Gollom · CBC News · Posted: May 21, 2024 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario … Read more
Soooo what are our governments doing to prepare for this? Nothing. The Carbon Tax and all the EVs in the world ain’t going to do shit to help you and me survive this. The shifting of the planets magnetic poles. Its going on right now. The earth’s magnetic shield is weakening. That leaves us … Read more
Yes, you have to “precondition the battery” which means heat the battery up to a certain temp before you can use a fast charger. Not great if the battery is dead and its very cold. Freezing cold weather is not the time you want car troubles. Our Feral Government does not seem to … Read more
Listen to the first 15 or 20 minutes and you will get a good understanding of the problem. I have mentioned this before. Our electricity grid, on which our civilization totally dependent, is vulnerable to being wiped out by a Coronal Mass Ejection from the sun. Something that can happen on any given day, … Read more
The cost of EV ownership is only going to go up. High vehicle purchase cost, insurance costs (both auto and home), repair costs, possible required upgrades to your home electrical infrastructure, the eventual rise of the cost of electricity and the fire hazard problem are never mentioned by the EV cultists. Buyer beware. Me? … Read more
Canada lays out plan to phase out sales of gas-powered cars, trucks by 2035 The end of the road is coming for gas−powered vehicles in Canada. New regulations being published this week by Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault will effectively end the sale of new passenger vehicles powered only by gasoline or diesel in 2035. Guilbeault … Read more
Australia and Canada have a lot in common. One thing is large stretches of wilderness that almost all highways in both countries pass through. Hundreds of kilometers between cities. Limited cell service. A lot of nothing. You are lucky to find a gas station let alone a EV charging facility. And is the EV … Read more
Can Canada mine enough minerals to feed the EV revolution? Canada has much catching up to do on the mining front to meet the federal government’s electric vehicle (EV) targets. There needs to be “massive and rapid expansion” of mining and metal refining in short order to meet Ottawa’s mandated demand that all new passenger … Read more
How is building EVs that absolutely huge doing anything to help the environment? Over two tonnes of material produced using fossil-fuel. Remember back in the day when Japanese cars first came to the North American market? They were popular. Why? They were small and affordable. Fuel economy was great. People loved them. If the … Read more