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Quebec has passed a law banning the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2035 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Starting in 2034, advertising gas-powered vehicles of the 2035 model year or later will be prohibited, and by the end of 2035, selling or leasing new gas-powered vehicles will be banned.

Exceptions include emergency, rental, and off-road vehicles, while used gas-powered cars can still be resold and driven.

Quebec aims for 2 million EVs on its roads by 2030, though challenges remain as EV rebates phase out starting in 2025.

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[–] random_character_a 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In cities yes, but try to live in rural area near or in polar circle. EVs somewhat work, but are generally a bad idea.

Quebec is not one of those places, but people tend to lobby these restrictions nation wide.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If the trend in battery tech advancements continues or even if it slightly slows down, by 2035 we will have batteries that are twice as dense, charge twice as fast and cost half as much. Batteries are the only limiting factor to go full steam on renewables and every country in the world that can afford it is currently researching battery tech. It will be fine.

[–] Knuk 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Plus we have super cheap electricity assuming attempts to privatize Hydro-Québec keep failing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

Your comment made me angry. These old accounting cunts are always trying to fuck us over to pad their budget short term.

Privatization is a plague and neo liberalism needs to die a gruesome death.

SAQ made almost 1.5 billion in profits, but the government is trying to shaft their employees by reducing the business hours, among some other issues, just to make more profits. Fuck off already

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Most probably, that user was concerned with the already known issue with cold being capable of drainning batteries but as you so well stated the technology is advancing in leaps and bounds and the momentum in increasing so, given time, even that concern may very well be a soon forgotten issue.

But even if not, I'll risk keeping the batteries a safe temperature could be solved by adding insulation to the space used to store the battery in the vehicle. In warm(er) weather, vents could allow for excessive heat to exhaust.

Just a thought.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Solid state batteries solve the temperature problem and are already being practically applied for cars. The History > 2020-Present section of this article shows well how much global interest lies is in these.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_battery