“Net-Zero Tyranny” – Page 70

Study forecasts challenges of electric vehicle chargers on northern power grids

A study is revealing some of the challenges that electric vehicles will pose to northern power grids — and it’ll likely be revised now that Canada has a plan for phasing out the sale of gas-powered cars and trucks.

“At no point in our studies did we consider 100 per cent electric vehicle adoption,” said Michael Ross, a researcher at Yukon University who is leading the study.

Ross, an industrial chair in northern energy innovation, said his research is looking at slow to high adoption rates of electric vehicles in Dawson City and parts of Whitehorse and Yellowknife. So far, it’s showing some of the ways residential power grids will be strained if people in those neighbourhoods add Level 2 electric vehicle charging stations to their homes, he said.

by Blazingcatfur•December 30, 2023December 30, 2023•0•"Energy Matters", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Kelly McParland: Justin Trudeau’s naive EV plan hands the keys to China

First off, let’s be clear that I have nothing against electric vehicles. Never mind saving the planet, who wants to pull up to a grimy gas pump on a howling winter day and risk hypothermia for the privilege of paying whatever ransom oil companies are demanding for another tankful of “dirty” fuel?

So fine, electricity is good. But let’s be serious. Canada is just the latest country to set a firm date for the future to arrive. In our case it’s 2035, when gas guzzlers are out. No high-test for you! It will be a new dawn, an electric vehicle (EV) world. Ready or not, here we come.

We are governed by the stupid high school students.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2023December 28, 2023•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny"

INFOGRAPHIC: Climate Scientists’ Credibility Hurt

Humanity has only a few years to act before the world may irreversibly plunge into an environmental catastrophe of global proportions, climate experts warned in a recent report. Their calls are muffled, however, by dozens of past dramatic predictions that have failed to pan out.

Environmental experts have been predicting doom for many decades. Most, though not all, of the prognostications involve climatic cataclysm that appears to be just around the corner, only to fizzle out as the deadline approaches.

by Blazingcatfur•December 26, 2023December 26, 2023•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny"

ICBC scraps 2022 electric car after owners faced with $60,000 bill to replace damaged battery

A Vancouver electric-car owner was shocked to learn earlier this fall that seemingly minor damage to his car’s battery required replacement of the unit and was quoted a $60,000 repair bill — more than the list price for a new car.

by Blazingcatfur•December 26, 2023December 25, 2023•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", WTF?

A year of green gaslighting

It is hardly a state secret that our eco-obsessed elites want us to consume less, travel less and emit less carbon. At the centre of this miserable project has been the drive to tear people away from their cars.

Over the past few years, greens in government have launched all manner of anti-motorist schemes. There have been Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs), so-called 15-minute cities and congestion charges like London’s Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ). Yet whenever anyone pushes back against these schemes, our green elites claim that none of it is really happening.

by Blazingcatfur•December 26, 2023December 25, 2023•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny"

The federal government wants Canadians to switch to electric vehicles. Are they interested?

With electric vehicle sales in Canada breaking records every year, the demand is clear, say advocates of EVs.

“There is currently very high interest, and that interest is growing,” said Louise Lévesque, director of policy at Electric Mobility Canada, a national industry association that works to advance electric transportation.

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault last week unveiled the federal government’s electric vehicle sales mandate regulations, which include a national target of 100 per cent zero-emission vehicle sales by 2035. In making his announcement, Guilbeault also noted how the Canadian marketplace is already experiencing “a rapid shift toward zero-emission vehicles.”

by Blazingcatfur•December 25, 2023December 25, 2023•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Ottawa looking at including used cars in federal electric vehicle incentive, report says

A government report suggests federal incentives for used electric vehicles could be in the works as Ottawa pushes to phase out gas-powered cars.

Canada’s latest emissions reduction progress report says the federal government will “explore the potential to expand the Incentives for Zero Emission Vehicles (iZEV) program to include used vehicles.” But the three lines in the report don’t offer much detail.

Neither Transport Minister Pablo Rodriguez’s office nor the office of Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault would say whether discussions are underway to expand the incentive program.

by Blazingcatfur•December 25, 2023December 24, 2023•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Guilbeault wants to ban gas-powered car sales by 2035. Is that even possible?

Right now, roughly one-in-10 new cars driving off the lot are electric or plug-in hybrid. By 2035, the government has declared that number needs to be … all of them.

As far as goals go, you can’t fault the ambition, but is it even feasible?

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And, if there are enough cars to go around, will Canadians be able to charge this massive new convoy of electric vehicles?

It depends on who you ask, but skeptics abound in both the automotive and energy sectors.

by Blazingcatfur•December 25, 2023December 24, 2023•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

GUNTER: Liberals driving EVs down the disinformation highway

While reading this column, I ask you to keep one thought in the back of your minds: The federal Liberals think they should be in charge of content on the Internet because only they can protect Canadian democracy from “disinformation.”

by Blazingcatfur•December 25, 2023December 24, 2023•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

GOLDSTEIN: Guilbeault serves up horse manure for Christmas

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says critics of the Trudeau government’s policy to mandate that all new vehicle sales in Canada must be EVs or plug-in hybrids by 2035 are engaged in horse and buggy thinking.

by Blazingcatfur•December 24, 2023December 23, 2023•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", WTF?

Adam Pankratz: Steven Guilbeault ignores reality with impossible electric vehicle mandate

The Canadian government announced earlier this week that capitalism was no longer of any interest to it. Steven Guilbeault, the enlightened Minister of Environment has decreed that by 2035 internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles must be phased out in favour of electric vehicles (EVs). This dirigiste move flies straight in the face of the principles of a market economy that enable the technology required for the energy transition and will no doubt be rife with unforeseen consequences.

by Blazingcatfur•December 24, 2023December 23, 2023•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Gas-powered vehicles have become like horses and buggies, says Guilbeault

If you think car theft is bad now wait till Trudeau’s Green-Scam gets rolling.

It’s been a year full of announcements for Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, who has introduced a range of new climate policies and regulations over the last 12 months. Having recently returned from the COP28 global climate conference in Dubai, Guilbeault caught up with iPolitics to reflect on his year and outline his priorities moving forward.

He also chats about what’s next for impact assessment in Canada, why he thinks gas-powered vehicles are the new horse and buggies, as well as what he believes is the high point of his career.

Guilbeault means he sees cars being pulled by horses because electric vehicles are not practical as a replacement for ICE vehicles which will be few and only for the rich in his Brave New World.

by Blazingcatfur•December 23, 2023December 23, 2023•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny"

His electric vehicle battery died. One year later, he’s still waiting for a replacement

Some car owners looking to replace the battery that powers their Nissan Leaf electric vehicles are frustrated with how long it’s taking to get back on the road.

Mississauga, Ont., resident Atif Harooni bought a new Leaf in 2017 to save money on gas and to take advantage of a $14,000 government rebate for electric vehicles.

“It was good and it all ran well,” Harooni told CBC Toronto in an interview. “I really like driving it and it’s very little maintenance.”

More … GM buys out nearly half of its Buick dealers across the country, who opt to not sell EVs

General Motors said nearly half its Buick dealers took buyouts this year rather than invest in selling and servicing electric vehicles as the automaker’s brands transition to all electric by 2030.

That means GM will end 2023 with about 1,000 Buick stores nationwide, down 47% from where it started the year.

h/t Mauser

by Blazingcatfur•December 22, 2023December 22, 2023•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Danielle Smith vows to fight Trudeau’s ‘unconstitutional’ plan to ban gas-powered cars

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith made it crystal clear that she intends to fight with “everything” at her disposal what she called an “unconstitutional” new federal government mandate that all new cars and trucks by 2035 be electric, which would in effect ban the sale of new gasoline- or diesel- only powered vehicles after that year.

by Blazingcatfur•December 21, 2023December 21, 2023•0•"Energy Matters", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Alberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

GUNTER: Another costly Liberal solution to a non-existent problem

Trust the Trudeau government to pick the wrong solution to the wrong problem.

Most headlines about Tuesday’s announcement regarding electric vehicle (EV) sales in Canada had pretty much the same theme: Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault announced that 20% of all new vehicles sold in Canada “must be” EVs by 2026.

by Blazingcatfur•December 21, 2023December 20, 2023•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government