“EV’s – Electric Vehicles” – Page 17

The electric car honeymoon is over

Sooner or later, it is going to dawn on the owners of electric cars that they have been enjoying one of the longest introductory free offers in history. The moment of realisation may even come tomorrow. That is when, for the first time, electric cars (EVs) are going to become liable to pay road tax. It won’t necessarily be too onerous. Drive an EV out of a showroom tomorrow and you will pay just £10 in car tax for the first year, rising to £195 for your second year of ownership and beyond. Owners of vehicles registered between 1 April 2017 and today will pay £195 a year. Those registered between 2001 and 2017 will be liable for £20 a year road tax.

EV’s are heavy vehicles that still get a free pass in Canada for the added road wear they cause.

by Blazingcatfur•April 3, 2025April 3, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles"

Trump Was Right to Kill the EV Mandate

Scrapping the EPA’s draconian tailpipe-emissions rule will boost competition, benefit consumers, and strengthen national security.

In his March 4 address to a joint session of Congress, President Donald Trump celebrated terminating Joe Biden’s “insane electric vehicle mandate.” A year ago, the Biden Environmental Protection Agency had finalized a rule, nominally about tailpipe emissions, that would have required 30 percent to 56 percent of all new light-duty consumer cars sold in the United States to be electric vehicles (EVs). Trump announced his intention to undo Biden’s EV overreach in his first week in office, as part of his executive order entitled “Unleashing American Energy.”

by Blazingcatfur•March 29, 2025March 29, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Tariffs, Elon Musk and charging headaches: Quebec is suddenly seeing trouble in its EV paradise

MONTREAL — U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest tariff on the auto sector is a new blow to electric vehicle owners in Quebec but, in the province with the most electric vehicles in the country, EVs were already losing their lustre.

Robert Brunelle, a resident of Saint-Lambert, Quebec, is almost relieved after getting into a car accident last year. He bought a Tesla Model S in 2021 because it’s “a great car.” It’s fast. It’s quiet. It’s cutting-edge technology.

by Blazingcatfur•March 29, 2025March 28, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Quebec

$270M investment in Northvolt’s parent company now worthless, says Quebec government

The $270 million invested by Quebec in Northvolt’s parent company in Sweden is now worthless, confirmed the provincial government.

“We estimate that the value of this amount is lost,” said Christine Fréchette, Minister of the Economy, Innovation and Energy, on Wednesday.

The amount was part of a $2.9 billion investment by Quebec and Ottawa.

by Blazingcatfur•March 28, 2025March 28, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

McTEAGUE: Don’t let the Liberals fool you on electric cars

The Liberals’ carbon tax ploy is utterly shameless. For years they’ve been telling us that the Carbon Tax was a hallmark of Canadian patriotism, that it was the best way to save the planet, that it was really a “price on pollution,” which would ultimately benefit the little guy, in the form of a rebate in which Canadians would get back all the money they paid in, and more!

Meanwhile big, faceless Captain Planet villain corporations — who are out there wrecking the planet for the sheer fun of it! — will shoulder the whole burden.

by Blazingcatfur•March 23, 2025March 22, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

CHARLEBOIS: Farmers pay the price for Ottawa’s electric vehicle obsession

Canada started a trade war with China, yet few in Ottawa seem willing to acknowledge the consequences.

Unlike the United States, which often imposes tariffs as a bargaining chip only to later negotiate, China takes a far more calculated and punitive approach. When Beijing retaliates, it targets industries with economic and symbolic significance, ensuring maximum pressure on its adversary.

by Blazingcatfur•March 20, 2025March 19, 2025•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Audi to cut 7,500 jobs amid ‘challenging’ switch to EVs

Audi plans to cut 7,500 jobs as the German car maker scrambles to find money to fund the “challenging transition to electric mobility”.

The manufacturer, which is owned by Volkswagen, on Monday announced plans to axe around 8pc of its workforce by 2029. The job cuts are part of a series of measures aimed at saving €1bn (£840m) a year.

Audi said: “The economic conditions are becoming increasingly tougher, competitive pressure and political uncertainties are presenting the company with immense challenges.”

by Blazingcatfur•March 18, 2025March 17, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles"

There’s No Such Thing as ‘Green’ Industry

News this week emerged about the collapse of Swedish battery startup Northvolt. “Like many companies in the battery sector,” the failed company’s website explained, “Northvolt has experienced a series of compounding challenges in recent months that eroded its financial position.” European Governments, including those of Britain and the EU, have long claimed that as pioneers of green policy and the ‘transition to a low carbon economy’, their policies will cause domestic industries and the green economy to boom. But instead of the green dream turning into reality, across the continent there is only a bleak economic outlook and deindustrialisation. Given that so much of this was predicted, yet those predictions met with policymakers’ intransigence, isn’t it time to ask if this nightmare is a feature of green policy, not merely a bug?

by Blazingcatfur•March 17, 2025March 16, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Green Energy", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Mark Kelly exposes the hypocrisy behind the Democrats’ electric vehicle fixation

A wise friend of mine says that the leftist push to change government policies based on alleged “anthropogenic climate change” has been the greatest Trojan horse in history. Why? Because if you control CO2, you quite literally control everything. It was always about power, not about saving the planet.

by Blazingcatfur•March 16, 2025March 15, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles"

How Europe’s electric battery dream ran out of power

Setting ourselves stringent net zero targets will help us get ahead of other countries in the race to develop green technologies of the future. We know this must be true because Ed Miliband, and many others, keep telling us so. It is just that things don’t seem to be working out quite this way in the real world.

The collapse this week of the Swedish electric vehicle (EV) battery-maker Northvolt has once again shown how the countries most committed to net zero seem to be the ones which keep missing out on the spoils – while their industries drain away abroad, quite often to China.

by Blazingcatfur•March 15, 2025March 15, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Electric cars ‘so heavy they can smash through motorway barriers’

Heavy electric cars are more likely to smash through crash barriers, putting lives at risk, a transport trade body has warned.

The Vehicle Restraint Manufacturers Association (VRMA) has written to the Government claiming the extra weight of banks of batteries in electric cars means “out of date” safety barriers on British motorways are at risk of being breached by an impact.

The group, which represents British manufacturers of road safety equipment, says design standards for barriers are failing to keep pace with the Government’s commitment to promote electric vehicles.

by Blazingcatfur•March 15, 2025March 15, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles"

Cory Morgan: After So Many Investment Failures, Ottawa Must Change Course on EV Policy

Over 10 years ago, experts with most tribunes were assuring the world that combustion engines were on the way out and electric vehicles would soon dominate markets. Despite this optimism, Canadians didn’t embrace EVs widely, thus the call for subsidies for manufacturers and purchasers went out. The federal government answered the call and billions in tax dollars were dedicated to rebate programs, subsidies, and loan guarantees for EVs.

by Blazingcatfur•March 15, 2025March 14, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Status of Northvolt’s Quebec Battery Plant Unclear Amid Parent Company’s Bankruptcy

It’s unclear whether Northvolt North America’s electric vehicle battery plant project in Quebec will proceed after its parent company filed for bankruptcy in Sweden on Wednesday.

The manufacturer’s Canadian subsidiary says Northvolt AB underwent an “exhaustive effort … to secure a viable financial and operational future” but was ultimately unsuccessful.

by Blazingcatfur•March 13, 2025March 13, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", Canada, USA

‘I don’t see how that ever is going to be possible’: EV skepticism builds amid tariff threats, headwinds

Despite increasing competition from Chinese automakers, disappearing rebates for electric vehicles, growing unease about the economy and other headwinds, one threat above all others is rattling the auto sector: United States President Donald Trump’s potential 25 per cent tariffs.

by Blazingcatfur•February 28, 2025February 28, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Aston Martin: Going electric is ‘too extreme’ for luxury car drivers

Aston Martin’s new chief executive has warned that electric cars are “too extreme a step” for many of its customers as the company axed 170 jobs and delayed the launch of its first battery-powered vehicle for a second time.

Adrian Hallmark, who left rival Bentley to take the top job last September, said wealthy drivers were split over electric vehicles (EVs) despite calling the technology an “inevitable and somewhat necessary” shift for the car industry.

by Blazingcatfur•February 27, 2025February 26, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles"