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Fucking dumb policy, but inevitable given the US' stance.
North American leftist politicians:
Also North American leftist politicians:
Subsidize North American manufacturers equally to Chinese ones and then let them fail if they can't compete / intentionally keep trying to sabotage the EV market by only producing giant expensive EVs.
The government needs to ban oversized vehicles as BYD is one of the few automakers still wanting to sell hatchbacks and sedans.
What leftist politicians are in a position of power? Trudeau is on the right, he's just comparatively further left than PP or Harper.
Fuck cars so much.
We need to redesign Canadian cities to be walkable and transit oriented. Half of all Canadians live on the Quebec - Windsor corridor, which has the density and the geography to be able to be turned into a Western European like rail-and-bike heaven.
Considering the quality of Chinese EVs lately, we don't even need to do tariffs. Just force random safety testing on them and we can basically bar the entire line. Simply include proper collision simulations and battery safety tests. These EVs already spontaneously combust in transit and there's already been several container ships that's gone up because of them.
Such tests can be universal and will help maintain local production quality as well.
If weβre gonna talk about safety and reliability, GM would probably be one of the worst performers in that test.
Possibly. I don't follow automakers generally, but I really wonder if you can be worse than cars with batteries that spontaneously combust while parked, or cars with batteries that are entirely unshielded and placed lower than the axel and fenders, making it the first thing to be hit by any debris on the road.
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