this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2024
127 points (100.0% liked)

Canada

7273 readers
445 users here now

What's going on Canada?

Related Communities

🍁 Meta

🗺️ Provinces / Territories

🏙️ Cities / Local Communities

Sorted alphabetically by city name.

🏒 SportsHockey

Football (NFL): incomplete

Football (CFL): incomplete

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer

💻 Schools / Universities

Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.

💵 Finance, Shopping, Sales

🗣️ Politics

🍁 Social / Culture

Rules

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
127
EV prices need to drop by one third if Canada wants to hit sales targets, says gov't report (www.ctvnews.ca)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
96 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Unless policies or technologies change, the ownership cost of electric vehicles (EVs) needs to decrease by 31 per cent if Canada to wants to reach its sales target of 60 per cent EVs by 2030, according to a new report released Thursday by Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux.

Last December, the federal government unveiled its Electric Vehicle Availability Standard that outlined zero-emission vehicle sales targets for automakers. The standard requires all new light-duty sales in Canada to be electric or plug-in hybrid by 2035. There are also interim targets of at least 20 per cent of all sales being EVs by 2026 and 60 per cent by 2030.

Those federal government targets come as growth forecasts for auto companies have plateaued and concerns about charging infrastructure persist. The price of EVs has also pushed the cars out of reach for many consumers. According to the Canadian Black Book, the average cost of an EV was $73,000 in 2023.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Counting by units biases you towards junk that isn't bought by the first world because it's bad.

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

Lots of Japanese cars don't meet North American road safety standards, because NA road safety standards prioritize occupant safety of an individual vehicle over the safety of everyone.

[–] LeFantome 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It is worse than that. In North America, you have to assume the occupants are not wearing seatbelts. That means bigger, less directional airbags for example. Less safe if you are wearing a belt. Safer if you are not. In Europe by contrast, you can design with the assumption that safety belts are being used.

The “safer” European vehicles “do not meet North American safety standards”.

I know little about Chinese automotive standards but I assume they are looser. That said, simply not having anchors for car seats is enough “not to meet safety standards”. Those are easy to add. These things do not always mean what you think they do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

@LeFantome @masterspace good properly worn belts with Buster - type shock witnesses , along eith reduced posted maxximum speeds would be ideal. airbags are expensive shock witnesses.