Feds to pause electric vehicle incentives
Feds to pause electric vehicle incentives
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Feds to pause electric vehicle incentives
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Cue my friends moaning about how the gov't wont give them thousands of dollars of free money to buy a tesla
Meanwhile, where's my free money for never contributing to gridlock, never causing potholes, never polluting the environment, etc.?
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Automotive pollution causes thousands of excess deaths every year. It is also linked to a number of negative health outcomes, and has a correlation to autism in children.
Used EV parts have the possibility of really transforming our society — EV batteries that are no longer suitable for transportation can still hold enough charge to power a home for a day or two; couple that with used EV motors which can generate electricity, and each EV that can no longer be driven is effectively a cheap and ready power plant that can power a home or office, or can help provide grid-scale storage on the cheap.
Everyone is going to benefit from a (near) fully EV world.
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Your free money is also in the Tesla.
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"Tee hee, I guess if you want more funding you'll have to elect us again! Tee hee!"
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Yeah, they announced Friday there was almost 72M left in the fund, so apparently they sold 16K cars this weekend and ran it dry. Except with the cancellation today, dealerships are being told that unless the car was delivered before the announcement, those people aren't getting the credit. Since you usually don't drive away in your car on the day you buy it, it sounds like lots of awkward calls are going out today. TC says they will dole out the remainder on a first come first serve basis, so some may get ot and others won't. I wonder what happens to the money for those who still go through with their weekend purchase without the bonus. Huge windfall for the dealers when they get the rebate and don't tell their customers?
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Like all of the comments about much smaller emobility support.
A $300/ton carbon tax ($3/gallon gasoline), is the right amount. Cost of air capture of CO2 claims objectives below this. But there are far better options to reduce emissions instead, such as wind and solar. It is also enough to provide a $4000/year rebate to every Canadian just from average vehicle oil use.
The argument for dropping these incentives is that it has run out of budget. Carbon tax and dividend is a zero budget program. It is almost as much as the EV incentive, but you can support local transit/trains more, micromobility, and moving closer to work/travel destinations. Home energy is also a tax/dividend source, and dividend becomes large enough to invest in saving "taxes".
With a $4-5k carbon dividend, you can also replace budgets for welfare/homeless programs to boost dividend/UBI by another $3k and solve homelessness, and work disincentives for those on welfare. Much higher "total" UBI becomes much more affordable, and empowering to people to make incentivized climate decisions, live without crime and divisiveness promoting hate.
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Already got one but ok. My wife wants one too.
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"Electric vehicle incentives"
Only cars.
E-bike/micromobility incentives would go WAY farther than anything for cars. The $5000 incentive for one car could outright buy 2-3 ebikes what would have a bigger impact. Alternatively, $500 per e-bike would be ~25% the cost and be able to subsidize 10 times the number of vehicles.
But bike lanes cause traffic congestion, do you really want to slow down all these drivers just so you can leisurely ride a bike?!??!? /s
Yes. I very much enjoy leisurely riding my bike to work instead of turning into an absolute cunt the second I touch a steering wheel.
It's maddening to know that we have no e-bike/e-scooter incentives in Canada, but we'll gladly give people a $5000 rebate to buy an expensive car they don't need.
A car that will cost society far more than it will ever give back.
Let's say that this rebate was for a free e-bike or e-scooter up to $2000 (this is expensive, but we'll go with that), $72 million would pay for 36,000 of them!!!!!!!!!!
Could you imagine the societal benefit of having 36,000 fewer cars/SUVs on the road?
Not to mention the hundreds of millions saved on infrastructure costs.
Just so goddamn infuriating to know that we have a better way to improve everyone's lives, but we have to give it up to car companies.
See, where this falls apart is in believing that someone buying a new SUV would buy a scooter instead, if only it was cheaper. Most of them do not want a scooter, or a bicycle, even if it propels itself.
You can't make someone buy asperagus if what they're looking for is chocolate chip cookies.
e-Bikes and e-Scooters are already significantly cheaper than even the cheapest new car.
And yet people are still choosing to buy cars.
It’s not the price of a e-bike that is the problem; it’s that you can’t get an e-bike that can haul around a family of 4 and all their “stuff” to grandma’s two cities over in a reasonable amount of time.