- cross-posted to:
- electricvehicles@slrpnk.net
- cross-posted to:
- electricvehicles@slrpnk.net
cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/58531110
Sixty-one per cent of respondents supported allowing more Chinese electric vehicles into the Canadian market, including 24 per cent who strongly backed the decision and 38 per cent who somewhat supported it.
The poll, which was conducted online and can’t be assigned a margin of error, surveyed 1,570 people from Jan. 30 to Feb. 2.
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Well, the Americans aren’t making them.
The nazi guy is, but fuck him.
Send em over the border I want a cheap electric hatchback
I just want an egolf with a decent range…
Lmao. Canada hates the US and for good reason. Not to mention the insane tariff situation, and I’m sure the sweetheart deals that musk has with the us govt to protect his trash from being trounced by Chinese evs….
Something compact like the Ford Focus but with a 600km range (or more) would be perfect.
Fuckin’ A!
Oooo the tarriffs (ie tax) you would pay would probably equally two or three cars combined. On top of what I would be selling it to you, probably.
Ez, sell it to me for a dollar on the deed and I’ll pay you in cash, that’s how we did shit in the 90’s
Won’t be certified for the US and won’t be allowed to be imported.
You read my mind!
Does Canada have local manufacturing of good EVs?
Assuming Canada doesn’t want American trash (seems like the prevalent opinion) the next option is European vehicles.
And I dunno that Canada yet has a favourable trade relationship for EU cars, so why shouldn’t they get some Chinese import cars?
I haven’t heard anything actually bad about them except “cheap”.
Probably some tracking and privacy issues, but it seems like all companies do that so who the duck cares?!To be clear, I live in the UK. I am very much local first, closer to home the better, never American.
The supply chain for most “local” vehicle manufacture in North America winds back and forth between Canada, the US, and Mexico. None of those countries can assemble a finished car without parts coming from both of the others. Trump hates this and has been doing his utmost to torpedo the system.
The risk with Chinese cars has less to do with the cars themselves and more with getting too deeply enmeshed in, and dependant upon, trade with China. ~50000 cars a year isn’t going to do that in Canada, though, since at the moment we’re wary of putting too many eggs into any basket.
We don’t make passenger EVs in Canada. There were plans for starting production by some of the American autos but they all bailed with the arrival of Trump on the scene. After taking Canadian subsidies no less. We also subsidized battery plants that were supposed to feed EV production. Now their future is in question.
