Canada EVs

Canada iZEV Electric Car Incentive Program Begins May 1. Steve Hanley, Clean Technica. Apr. 22, 2019.

from the comments:

• Canada's EV and transportation emissions strategy in general is one of the most pathetic in the world. It seems like we are actively trying to do everything wrong. The tax credit is small and applies to very few of the EVs on the market. There's little in the way of strategy to expand charge stations into more remote highways. The end of Greyhound means Canada has no national bus service. We have only one national train service and it's quality and reach is comparable to or worse than third world countries and only one province has any regional train service and that province has cut train services. And Canadians are switching from Sedans to the most gas guzzling vehicles on the planet and we're flying and driving everywhere. But we have a Carbon tax, well maybe not for long.
• Generally pathetic...but 62% of Canadian Electricity is Hydro. And this EV incentive at $5000 Federal and in B.C. $5000 provincial means we will buy a Kia Niro Ev for $10,000 less. Should be next month if they are available. So some things are good... and then there are the oil sands
• Being a Canadian, I have to say, Sorry this government sucks so bad and they dropped the ball after all their "Big Talk" (aka Bafflegab & doublespeak). Sadly the next one might be even worse, a "Conservative One". They are all pushing for more pipelines and more Tar Sands emissions and lip serving everything else.  This 5K with limits really is not going to help much as our dollar hurts us. Maybe some provinces will kick in Above & Beyond but forget the "Blue Ones", they won't. Even the new Premiere of Ontario Ol' Fordo kyboshed the BYD Factory being built... Not unlike the USA, We NEED a New Political Party with no deadheads & swamp creatures who will look to the future for all of us but alas it will never happen, just the same ol retreads who insist on painting pigs Black & White and calling them cattle.

List of eligible vehicles under the iZEV Program. Govt of Canada.


related, of note:

Electric vehicles emit more CO2 than diesel ones, German study shows. The Brussels Times. Apr. 17, 2019.

Mining and processing the lithium, cobalt and manganese used for batteries consume a great deal of energy. A Tesla Model 3 battery, for example, represents between 11 and 15 tonnes of CO2

EV Makers Face One Major Problem. Irina Slav, OilPrice.com. Sep 02, 2019.

If one listens to statements from carmakers with ambitious EV plans, one’s left with the impression that the world is in for a true automotive revolution and that those of us in their middle age right now will actually live to see a world with an almost entirely electric fleet. Alas, carmakers with ambitious EV plans have a vested interest in making such statements. Reality, as usual, tends to be different, and now these ambitious plans are facing a challenge: battery recycling costs.

Today's Electric Car Batteries Will Be Tomorrow's E-Waste Crisis, Scientists Warn. Maddie Stone, Motherboard. Nov. 6, 2019.