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Has anyone told TorontoHydro? Given what was said at the new ultra low overnight rates press briefing, they apparently don't have to do anything to improve electricity supplies for the massive influx of EV's that will be forced on all Canadians in the coming years.
I cant wait till the batteries and charge stations start spontaneously combusting. Also the copper thieves stealing the charging cables.
Nice
Terrible idea, the power grid won't handle it, electric vehicles are not ecologically friendly, the lithium mines are ran with slave labour. Another woke failure
I’ll never buy one . 🫣
So at a time when we call can't even run our air conditioning at the same time in the summer, where's the ADDITIONAL electricity going to come from to charge all these cars. The draw significantly more power than an AC unit right?
Keep voting liberal and you will NOT be able to afford a car or truck. Carbon taxes will not stop at $170/ton. Just like they said we would get back more than we pay, it's complete lies. We are taxed more than anyone We have tons of resources and spend all those royalites, too
Lmao good luck! They are 60,000 to 129,000.00 and because of food , gas, trudeau and Biden, no one can afford that. Plus poor people of Congo. Digging for cobalt .
Service centres along the 401 sell gasoline to thousands of cars every day. You will need thousands of charging stations if we all go electric. You will need a nuclear reactor to supply those chargers. Gas cars will be around for 50 years.
The infrastructure isn't in place to support them...duh!
massive failure to come... i'm just watching this train wreck happening in slow mo
Ya well, we want that government out of our csbinets
It's what happens when you have a corrupt tyrannical government. If it was profitable investors would be all over it.
Control and limitations is the name of the game.
I will NEVER buy an electric vehicle specifically because the government is pushing it.
EV's have been tried 4 times in the past and failed. No subsidies for each time. Now it being tried again but this time government are giving hand outs of tax payer money to push them. You can sweeting crap all you want still in the end its crap.
- better Idea. - again better idea - again better and it's happening. - Japan is smart Canada is dumb
When the government stops all the subsidies they keep giving to companies and people to buy or sell EV's watch how much the sales drop. Happened in Europe it dropped 85% in a month. People started to by hydrogen cars because cheaper and no battery replacement in 10 years.
Reason why they do not want to push Hydrogen because if we did go that route the cost of it would be so cheap no one would make huge profits. All about money plain and simple Replace the oil companies greed with Power companies.
Will they be offering burgers and fries, and free concert tickets? Or just take more taxpayer dollars and hand them to automakers. Just more buyouts.
This government is obsessed with a technology that is not ready to be adopted. Winter makes electric vehicles pretty much useless on our roads. If we had climate change and warmed Canada a few degrees, electric cars would be better, but climate change is more scam than truth.
I'm so sick of Governments pushing EV's because every 10 years you have to replace the battery. Freaking joke Hydrogen is the future and the rest of the entire world knows that except north america where they are pushing EV's
They do realize the actual carbon output of having to mine enough lithium, will far exceed that of fossil fuel burning vehicles by about a trillion. Not to mention the poison released into mine local water tables will also ACTUALLY kill off a lot more life forms...
Cars swapped by electric cars will not reduce the sprawling monstrosities of urban areas. The grid locks on the roads remain. The city planning keeps on favoring soul less neighborhoods and big and bigger box stores.
What about all their carbon emissions?
Good products sell themselves and the market demands them .. this artificial push for environmentaly damaging lithium ion battery cars should concern everyone
Environmental destruction to bring in EVs and enough electricity to power them. Dead, extripated wildlife is okayed by the environmental climate priests to make all that clean energy. No such thing as zero-sum
Come at me bro
The federal government needs to be tossed out in its collective butt and Trudeau should be locked up and the key thrown away for what he has allowed the degrowth movement and Chinese to do w this country. There is is a reason he is the most hated person in Canadian history.
The questions I ask the news should ask, remember who what where when why how and if such is answered ask the same questions again concerning said.
Has the government devised a plan for what to do with old battery acid yet?
Funny how won’t do a journalist piece on the children in Africa mining cobalt for all these EV’s ….🧐
Impossible
This government needs to go
defundctv
there just isnt enough power to go around its simple math. We dont just all need to swap are cars out its the power lines and distro stations that we will over load. Not to mention but we also just dont have enough batterys. I think they are cool but were just not ready yet.
Of course they are. The globalist cabal is well in place to run the world now as they see fit. All at a MASSIVE profit to run away with.
Vehicles that consume massive amounts of energy powered by fossil fuels lol. What a joke. Imagine the bodies if there is a massive traffic jam in the winter
I tried a hybrid gave it a chance, big mistake 6 months in nothing but trouble, they definitely are not ready for our winters. Ordered a gas version less than a year in.
Well, you be the first to drive from Toronto to Thunder Bay! Let us know how it works out for you. Hahahaha
Pie in the sky! Nobody wants them until they are perfected and that’s not going to happen anytime in the near future.
They gunna give them away?
The power grid is not there yet to support electric vehicles imagine the stress and headache of charging the vehicle when the power is not there
Follow the $$. More corruption and back door deals in the TrudeauDictatorship
We are going to look back on this period and shake our heads realizing our stupidity. Kicking the environmental problem down the road is not a good idea.
As long as they're happy with 5,6,7, year olds mining cobalt in Africa all day long, for $1 Or paying China even more!!! Trudeau acts like he cares about black people around the world, but he really doesn't give a crap!!!
Truth
And then comes the high cost of electricity.
Firstly much much more infrastructure! Currently people are not allowed to charge EV’s at provincial parks and there are only 2 charging stations at the Oshawa Centre! We just got a hybrid because we’re not confident the infrastructure is there for us to go full electric
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Make sure they have trailer hitches to tow a generator around. 🤦
Absolute junk
They're too costly. Most Canadians cannot afford EV's. They will hurt - 1) the environment and people with dirty mining methods, and 2) the disposal of lithium batteries.
Way too impractical right now.
I wonder how older neighborhoods residents will be able to afford the conversion along with apartments it will be a very costly transformation. E.V currently can only go 4 hrs on a fully charged battery & not & to hardly any places on the highways to pull over to charge.
I see a future problem that there will be a greater demand on our power usage. Summer time is bad already as Air Conditioners will be used then each city they ask residents to cut down on power usage as it is putting a strain on the power plants.
Will they also be increasing the number of fire trucks with specialty foam for putting out the molten puddle with the bodies in it?🤔 Wexit2023👨🌾🤠🦬 WesternRepublic
All with fossil fuel oil-based tires! Hypocrites!
Maybe the government should tell the people how they make the batteries for the electric cars and where they get the material
Even if you wanted to buy a full electric vehicle the Wait time is between a year to two years,
They haven't reached one target, so they're now they're now manipulating numbers around how much carbon tax costs by factoring in a made up climate change number. Although we account for 1% of the world's carbon and it hasn't made a difference...
Why it increases POLLUTION!!
Will this fix inflation?
Norway is doing it. It gets cold there too.
Are they buying them for everyone? Wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest!
I guess we are going to use row boats to fight China in the world war
But nothing to upgrade the grid to charge them. Cart ahead of the horse mentality for virtue signalling.
Wait til nobody pays gas tax to maintain roads and they jack up rates on your hydro to make up for it. Then it’ll cost 10 times as much to heat your homes or your food if you’re on electric
Liberal logic….. don’t put money in the power grid but tell everyone to buy electric cars. Duh!!! Liberal logic equals another liberal failure.
What even means 'federal government '?
Junk
Make things worse for the environment, while making life less affordable for average Canadians. Nice policy. Isn’t govt supposed to work for the people that pay them?
Oh, I forgot to mention we had no power to most of the island of Montréal so nobody dared to drive an electric car, including myself, and thank God my gasoline car was running beautifully ....😆😅🤣😂
Quebec 5 days no power...
Canadian drivers are not causing climate change !!!!!! Are u kidding me? Look at the world and the pollution.
The ignorance towards Canadian weather by our own PM. This isn’t California, we have storms, we lose power a lot! We have -40 below…. Who’s making money off these cars, then you’ll see the motivation.
Not going to happen
All electric cars are going to do is separate the classes even more
What will power them?
Batteries are 20,000!!!
Electric cars are not practical in winter. I don’t want an effing electric car. Just drop it. There’s a whole world of polluters you think our cars and straws in Canada is the cause!?
Phuck off with those useless e-vehicles.
Can I charge this at -30 in my garage?
EVs are not much use where I live unless they can operate for more than 2 hours in -35 weather
Hypocrisy at its finest.
We might first need hydro infrastructure that doesn't drop dead at the slightest hint of inclement weather
Jturd and his buddies can set as many targets as they want. I will not be buying one.
Aggressive extremist government. Canada is an absolute pile of shit compared to 30 years ago.
I still won't be able to afford one. Sorry!
That’s all they have 😳🤡 TrudeauIsDestroyingCanada TrudeauChineseAsset
Last week my electric car stayed home and I couldn't see 1 in the streets of Montreal! Thank God my gasoline car was going great as usually....
You need to stop this nonsense! We all know electric vehicles are garbage and leave even a bigger deadlier carbon footprint! Stop insulting Canadians! Climate change like Covid are a hoax and a money scam!
Aggressively foolish! What about range in cold weather, mining for minerals, charging stations, battery disposal, power outages, difficult if not impossible repairs after an accident, high insurance premiums, etc.?
Did you know electric vehicle sales make up less then 6% of the new car market in Canada and the US. It appears they are the “small fringe minority with unacceptable views” also I don’t see Trudeaus convoy of body guards driving electric cars. Why is that?
Which few will be able to afford, that's if they can even produce enough vehicles, let alone supply enough electricity to charge them.
Why? Airborne Co2 is plant food. Electric cars are just as bad for the environment in many ways and in some ways worse. Climate change is a natural cycle and follows global warming not proceeds it. Oil is organic Co2. Synthetic fuel is made from airborne Co2 and costs the same.
The corrupt authoritarian Trudeau regime is finished
including destroying the peat lands in Ont. They are going to destroy carbon absorbing land to dig beneath for cobalt and other minerals for electric cars| Destroying lands that will never be able to do the same thing again
including destroying the peat lands in BC. They are going to destroy carbon absorbing land to dig beneath for cobalt and other minerals for electric cars| Destroying lands that will never be able to do the same thing again
People will just repair their old vehicles, that costs less. Electric vehicles promote child labor in 3rd world countries. All Electric vehicle owners should be aware they are a direct cause of exploitation.
With the Ice Storm and no power … great government decisions 🤡
Curious how people plan to charge them when the grid can’t support them already and they are banned gas fired heating/cooking equipment?
if the govt wants to put up the $$ they can buy me one
Takes a way less energy to push a chunky guy around
bahahahah what a scam!! Good luck to you all
Dont comply
Good luck with that. Garbage
Canadians are gonna have to get aggressive with the federal government to get them out of power before they destroy our goddamn country more than it already is.
HAHAHAHAH good luck, won't happen, hence the word 'targets' manufactures will just say yes for now but when the time comes....nah!
'Oh, grrrreat.....'
Before mass immigration, Someone poor from govt housing could become an adult and buy a used car for less than $500 and get to work and work their way into the middle class. Too bad we are getting rid of that. Poor people lose the most as usual with liberals.
Yep, I give this idea and the Liberals a number 🖕rating! f**koff
When is anyone gonna be able to afford one? Who has $50 k laying around they can blow to replace a car that still works More fantasy land politics from Trudeau the fairy
Can't wait to see how they 'ethically' source this stuff.
Electricity isn't the answer. just ask the people in Quebec whose had no power for over a week. Imagine no power, what are they lining up for now?.... haha GAS, for their generators. Can't even charge their cars. It shouldn't be forced, Let the two coexist....... Plus...
I rather stay with fuel.
Some of my patients couldn't come to the office because last Thursday and Friday because they didn't have their electric cars charged and we had electricity failure for many days. 🤡🤡🤡🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Before setting up the infrastructure necessary
TrudeauDictatorshipMustGo TrudeauMustGo There are some scenarios where an EV is a good choice. For eg…driving to and from work in a large city. On prairie roads in the winter…not so much!
This is a bribe to stop musk from releasing any Twitter files in Canada. And to bribe Musk to censor Canadians when Trudeau passes the new internet censorship laws!!!
Any front end accident the EVs are written off because of potential damage to the batteries!!! Our insurance companies are passing the price into us to subsidize EV owners insurance !
Bahahaha good luck finding charging stations that work and waiting hours for it to charge
Do all they want I'm still not buying that crap
How did that battery charging go during your massive power outage Toronto…?
CTVJerrySpringer let us Canadians get this straight. Trudeau is to pick our cars? DefundCTV if you don’t understand geography of Canada you are NOT a reliable source for anything! TrudeauEconomicSabotage cheered on by CTVPropaganda Screw the quality of Life for Canadians!
The children digging for cobalt with their bare hands are really appreciative 🤨
The federal government wants us to live in a 15-minute city. We won't need any cars 🤣🤣🤣
Costs too much, range is crap fast chargers too $$ and out power grid is not setup for it.
It's all politics 🙄, Saudi Arabia cut production of oil again and they're planning on joining brics so like the US government, canada screwed their people over by playing monkey see monkey do
Not gonna happen.
Only the wealthy can afford them, with only a couple exceptions. The charging infrastructure is lacking. They are terribly bad for the environment (look it up, loads of fossil-fuel-burning mining is required). Another ill-considered plan by leftists.
Maybe the government shouldn't be involved in forcing a specific vehicle engine type on the population.
This liberal govt. is very aggressive towards its own citizens
They want their returns on investment sooner than later
We all know how the feds targets on climate change non sense goes. Targets hit by the inept liberals - 0
How many people lost power in Quebec most recently?
And it will miserably fail. Still don't have a delivery date for a plug in hybrid 1 year after order.
How about getting some foia documents from the military regarding the climate engineering in our skies please . Aluminum particles sprayed to make the weather warmer in Toronto
It will FAIL like the solar and wind energy did in Europe and many states in the USA like California and Wyoming, were after 20 years of use, the materials have become land waste contamination because it can't be recycled!!!
IDIOTS
NO!
But no investment in electrical infrastructure….typical government.
Aggressive targets with CovidScam …aggressive targets with the ClimateScam … good thing we live in a “free” country
Eventually, private citizens will not own vehicles. There will be fleets of vehicles deployed to transport people to where they need to go. There will be far fewer vehicles that will run all day long. We need to get over ourselves.
none of which are even remotely attainable.
They are a failure in our climate. An F150 Lightning cost well over $100k and gets half its advertised range at just above 0 C⁰. Useless for towing as the range is even less than that. You will spend more time charging than driving.
Canadians have aggressive targets to DECREASE the number of federal government employees.
People can't afford high gas prices but they're going to be driving 10,000 electric cars.
-No infrastructure for electric vehicles -limited charging stations -limited electric production -EV have limited distance -EV production is worse for the environment -power outages are common -EV are expensive THIS GOVERNMENT IS OUT OF ITS MIND
l am stupid . How much cost me ?
As usual - spend your money! Canada is .49% of the world population. Most of our carbon contribution comes from the oil and gas sector (27%), transport, buildings, etc. 6 months of winter in most of Canada… why focus on electric cars? It’s political, capitalistic. Status quo.
In other news...plan to walk where you need to go when another ice storm hits and knocks out power for DAYS!!!
They only want the wealthy to drive period.Bus pass and bicycles for the rest of us.
The final nail in the coffin. Globalists win.
Just another one of Trudeau's pipe dreams. He won't be in power long enough to see it through. He is bankrupting the country now with carbon tax, kids will soon be going hungry because of Trudeau.
Most Canadians can't afford them.
Cool, when are the police and every government agency going to switch? If it is soooooo important why haven’t they switched yet?
What is the cost to replace the batteries after 5 years? 🤣
If these are so good why does everyone need to be forced to buy them?
No
ClimateScam
I am buying a jeep that runs on gasoline, thank you very much.... like this👇👇👇
Really handy to have during a 6 day power outage!
Easier to control you if you misspeak.
Yes we know It’s incredibly stupid & should be the first thing the next government reverses
and as usual will blame the provinces for not having infrastructure. causing sky high rates even more. JustinTrudeau s_guilbeault
The Government is doing this ONLY because they are trying to drive stock prices in this scheme.
I thought they wanted to protect the environment?
Hopefully we get rid of this aggressive government very soon
fucktrudeau
Uh. The “global warming” crisis is over.
And no one seems to answer what funding is going to replace the billions raised by the federal and provincial gasoline taxes? You think the govt is going to just walk away from these billions annually in revenue?
When a student it’s a second hand car in the future they will be getting an EV with a battery costing $10-$20K to replace? Same with lower income folks who buy older used cars? I guess they can just walk right?
The federal government can shove the batteries up theirs
So what about the tent people? Crickets 🦗…..,
Cars for the rich. No surprise there. Trudeau has no care for average Canadians.
That’s not for the government to decide. People have forgotten that the government works for us and we never asked for this
Absolute Dictatorship to think that Trudeau wants to FORCE Canadians to buy EV’s. Consumers, in a Democracy, choose what to buy, based on their needs, budget, their lifestyle, and because they WANT to. 🛑
In 20 years this will go down as the biggest environmental disaster of all time
And tell me again how many people have been. Without power in Quebec for how long? If they had an EV where would they be charging these cars when about 1,000,000 people were without power for days?
'cause we all appreciate an aggressive gov't
Well worry about all the stranded EVs on the highway, out of control electricity charges, environmental harm from mining and processing and lack of electrical infrastructure later. Not to mention the road damage from the heavier EVs.
Maybe they should bring back some incentives to make them affordable. Tax the gas (like they already do) and use that to incentivize EV sales.
These guys are emptying your bank accounts. When do the real hearings start?
Another example of just how out of touch with reality the liberals truly are
Fuck electric cars. The batteries don’t last for shit in winter….
So how does a family that can’t afford food by a 60,000$ EV?
But people still have to BUY this junk! In Canada? How exactly are they going to force us to do that? As if the crappy cold weather range, spontaneous combustions, inadequate electric grid, home supercharger expenses weren’t reason enough… call me when that’s sorted out…
Is that the same as forcing you to buy them ? Like the iPhones that add new software not compatible with phones that are only a few years old. Made to throw away, hoe does that do anything but change one problem to another?
Who the f*ck can afford an electric véhicule when families can’t afford groceries?