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Delicious-Tachyons t1_j1ayvgj wrote

how the hell can they say that 20% have to be electric? so if for a given year for Ford, they've sold millions of cars, the vast majority of which are gasoline, you get to november and it's "nope we can only sell electric to meet our quota" for the rest of the year? or do they mean sales from manufacturer to dealership?

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1StationaryWanderer t1_j1b5n8u wrote

My thoughts exactly. “Oh you budgeted 30k for a new car? Well sorry we can only sell you a 50k EV instead!” I’m all for EVs but they shouldn’t be forced down people’s throats. There’s a lot of good use cases for EVs but also for ICE cars as well.

Depending on when my current car dies, it will either be an EV (later) or regular car (dies soon). Just not enough infrastructure today around here. I know that will quickly change though.

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RaycharlesN t1_j1b53g4 wrote

They’ll sell fleet vehicles or lease them at a loss if they have to, to get their quota of EVs in. It’s why they used high mpg cars as loss leaders for years

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faizimam t1_j1bt5gm wrote

13% of all cars sold in bc and 11% of cars in Québec in 2022 were Evs.

Increasing that to 20% isn't much of a stretch.

Both those provinces already have minimum sales requirements for Evs, so companies allocate more models there.

But production is increasing rapidly, so hitting that number nationally is not as crazy as you'd think.

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WhichWitchIsWhitch t1_j1cpzfm wrote

Especially with gas prices where they're at and more electric trucks hitting the market

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Delicious-Tachyons t1_j1bu0r7 wrote

well i think it's a good thing... as long as there are enough charging stations and the stations aren't abused

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Dick-Wrinkle t1_j1cl5uz wrote

Ignore winnipeg then, nothing stays as it was here

Cant even have bus shacks

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