“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

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"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.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"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.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Chris Sankey: Fossil fuels aren’t going anywhere, we benefit too much from them

Over the last eight years we have experienced an unprecedented push from environmental activists to phase out fossil fuels. The Government of Canada seems to think it is possible. During question period in the Senate earlier this year, Sen. David Wells noted that, according to the Liberals, the energy transition “will cost $100-$125 billion per year at least to 2050,” and asked “When Canada only emits 1.5 per cent of global emissions, how does this expenditure make sense?”  

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

Of all top-heavy Liberal climate policies, electric-vehicles mandate is the worst

To meet Canada’s commitment to its Paris Agreement climate goals, the federal government has announced increasingly heavy-handed emissions reduction policies this year. It culminated Monday in the publication of regulated targets for electric-vehicle sales: an EV mandate.

History has shown us time and again that government quotas are no match for the market. The Liberals want to show us one more time why this is the case.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Comply!", "Energy Matters", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Motor Mouth: The consequences of Canada’s EV mandate

It’s now official. We have, as a nation, joined those other countries banning the sale of internal-combustion-engine-powered light-duty vehicles past the year 2035. Now, never mind that, like last year — when the feds dropped the original draft of these new standards — it appears the Liberals are once again hoping that dropping this rather Draconian new regulation right before Christmas will give them two weeks or so for skeptics’ distemper to dissipate. Or that, as I and many insiders believe, this is most definitely a Quebec-centric dictum — a province where both Liberals and EVs are hugely popular — writ large across the entirety of our fair land.

Charging an EV …

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Canada needs hundreds of thousands of public EV charging ports. Who is going to build them?

Most of the people who come to visit Debbie Nightingale’s Ontario farm are lured in by a chance to get up close and personal with her herd of friendly goats. But some visit for more practical reasons: to charge their electric vehicles.

“We have people who come on a regular basis because they know we have these,” Nightingale said, gesturing to the two-port EV-charging station she installed last year with the help of a federal tourism recovery grant.

As part of the federal government’s net-zero targets for the future, it is aiming for all new light-duty car and passenger truck sales to be zero emission by 2035, which will require a nationwide network of public charging ports.

Guilbeault is a lying idiot “Most people gonna charge at home.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Jesse Kline: Steven Guilbeault’s bad-faith plan to ban gas-powered cars

The Liberals don’t like to characterize their policies as causing potentially irreparable divisions between Eastern and Western Canada. Yet nothing screams “Laurentian elite looking out for their own at the expense of everyone else” quite like the recent press conference announcing the government’s new Electric Vehicle Availability Standard.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

ANALYSIS: Cost of EV Battery Replacement May Come as a Shock

They design a purpose built EV fire pool and it’s still burning.

As Ottawa mandates selling electric vehicles (EVs) and with an increasing number of offerings for consumers, the potentially major issue of battery replacement remains uncertain.

It’s been said that an EV is its battery and then everything else.

In a video uploaded Dec. 12, automotive journalists Andrea and Zack Spencer of the Motormouth Youtube channel, told the story of Kyle Hsu, a 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5 owner who faced a $60,000 bill to replace its battery. That was more than the $55,000 cost of the car brand new.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Dear Ottawa: Mandating electric-vehicle sales is a bad idea

Canadians got a jolt Tuesday when Ottawa released new electric-vehicle regulations. The move, called the “Electric Vehicle Availability Standard,” aims to dramatically accelerate EV sales. Meeting the standard will require EVs to constitute 20 per cent of new vehicles sold by 2026, 60 per cent by 2030 and 100 per cent by 2035. For reference, EV market share has been less than 10 per cent in recent years. But not complying with the proposed rule risks drawing the ire of regulators – along with potentially hefty fines.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Communism, Communists

Cory Morgan: Ottawa’s 2035 EV Target Will Be a Costly Policy Failure

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault’s plan to illegalize the sale of new conventional vehicles in Canada by 2035 is unreasonable, extreme, and will wreak havoc on the Canadian economy.

Despite nearly 10 years of cajoling, promoting, and subsidizing electric vehicles (EVs), over 95 percent of vehicle sales in Canada are still combustion engine models. EVs remain too expensive and impractical for Canadians to embrace. Rather than trying to understand why citizens won’t switch to EVs, the Canadian government is taking the ham-handed approach of forcing the transition, and the consequences of the move will be dire.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Government finalizes rules forcing all new cars to be electric or hybrid by 2035

OTTAWA – Canadian car dealers will have to sell a lot more electric vehicles under new regulations finalized on Tuesday.

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault released the new rules at a press conference in Toronto. The rules also set targets for car makers, mandating that 20 per cent of their sales are electric or plug-in-hybrid vehicles vehicles by 2026, 60 per cent by 2030 and 100 per cent by 2035. The rules apply to light-duty vehicles like cars and SUVs, as well as some pick-up trucks.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

Why North American electric vehicle mandates are destined to fail

According to reports, the Trudeau government will soon unveil regulations meant to phaseout the sale of new internal combustion vehicles and compel Canadians to buy zero-emission vehicles. The Biden administration is also mandating a similar shift. T

These initiatives, however, overlook two realities — consumer preferences are not easily swayed by top-down government directives and the unrealistic timeline for minerals crucial for electric vehicles (EV) raises serious doubts about the likelihood of success.

Surprising article from the Star.

It makes the case that Trudeau’s EV nuttery is doomed to failure without even touching on the unrealistic development expectations of the electrical power infrastructure needed to charge his childish wishdream.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Farmers Across Germany Protest Diesel Tax Break Cuts

The German establishment has been caught off-guard by the sudden emergence in force of major agrarian discontent as thousands of farmers took to the streets of Berlin and other regional centres Monday morning to protest the abolition of diesel fuel subsidies by the country’s green-left government.

Hundreds of tractors were seen simultaneously in the cities of Berlin, Leipzig, and Chemnitz as farmers rallied against government plans to abolish subsidies on agricultural diesel and introduce new taxes for their vehicles with farmers’ groups proclaiming the matter a clear red-line issue for their industry.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"