As Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe prepares to go to China next week, he said he would like the federal government to drop its 100 per cent electric vehicle tariff on Beijing.
We should get assembly deals in Canada with Renault. Their EVs are smaller, much cheaper and selling so well they can’t produce them fast enough.
The entire concept of EVs being expensive is a fabrication of the industry. It now costs less to make an EV than an ICE, battery costs have dropped 90% in a decade. Tesla makes the highest profit margins in the industry.
But, we let Detroit not only dictate the large trucks we make, but close the CDN market to smaller foreign EVs.
I was just in France and the new Renault 5 EV is absolutely amazing for a low cost commuting vehicle. I’d be happy to see French cars on Canadian roads again…
It’s the model of companies/China running at a loss until you squeeze out any viable competitors then once you’ve captured the market increase price and/or enshittify your product.
On one hand:
On the other hand:
Personally I’d rather see increased incentives or pushing negotiations with South Korea or Germany for EV alternatives
We should get assembly deals in Canada with Renault. Their EVs are smaller, much cheaper and selling so well they can’t produce them fast enough. The entire concept of EVs being expensive is a fabrication of the industry. It now costs less to make an EV than an ICE, battery costs have dropped 90% in a decade. Tesla makes the highest profit margins in the industry. But, we let Detroit not only dictate the large trucks we make, but close the CDN market to smaller foreign EVs.
I was just in France and the new Renault 5 EV is absolutely amazing for a low cost commuting vehicle. I’d be happy to see French cars on Canadian roads again…
EU now has a dozen EV cars under 25,000 euro. But Europe also has a real transit system so EVs don’t require 4000lbs of batteries.
Dependency on the US seems reckless at best and disastrous at worst
Those are not mutually exclusive.
How does cheaper options on a product = dependency?
Talk to all the retail shops shut down by Walmart and Amazon.
It’s the model of companies/China running at a loss until you squeeze out any viable competitors then once you’ve captured the market increase price and/or enshittify your product.
China is a necessary evil to stop US aggression. SK and Europe combined don’t have the military strength unfortunately.
Ideally our allies would be EU, CANZUK, China