I’m all for it.
And I’m sure Musk and the US manufacturers are thrilled with the tariffs. Fuck you I’ll buy Chinese if I want to and can.
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What do US tariffs have to do with Quebec?
Canada has announced/promised tariffs as well on Chinese EVs.
Nothing and that's the point: while the US will be stuck with Elon's Teslas, Canadians will get to use cheap and affordable Chinese EVs that actually compete with ICE cars in pricing and performance.
Nope, it's an anti dumping measure and it's perfectly appropriate in this situation.
Yep. And European and Japanese manufacturers haven't caught up. Koreans are well on their way though.
Would anyone like a cuban style car subculture where people renovate/resuscitate their gas cars ad infinitum.
Cubans resorted to that due to commercial embargos not out of stubborness.
Eletrical vehicles are the future and a welcome one.
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.
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.
Plus we have super cheap electricity assuming attempts to privatize Hydro-Québec keep failing.
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
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.
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.