“EV’s – Electric Vehicles”

MCTEAGUE: Mark Carney should have pulled the plug on the EV fantasy

In what may be the least shocking political news of the year, this past Friday the Carney government announced a twelve month pause to the Electric Vehicle (EV) mandate, which had been set to go into effect this coming January. (Or, as they put it in their obnoxious public policy-speak, they plan to “give the auto sector flexibility by waiving 2026 model vehicles from Electric Vehicle Availability Standard requirements.”)

Well, of course they did! As I’ve pointed out, time and time again, the Liberal’s EV mandate isn’t just a gross violation of our freedom that will make our lives harder and more expensive. It is also completely and utterly unworkable!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Ottawa Won’t Scrap EV Mandate, Wants Increased Imports, Domestic Production: Industry Minister

As Ottawa embarks on a 60-day review of its electric vehicle (EV) mandate, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly says the plan is not to get rid of the policy but rather to boost the production and importation of the vehicles.

“We want to build more EVs in Canada. We need to because we know that’s where basically the world is heading, and we want to make sure that we are able to compete with also Chinese EVs,” Joly said during a press conference in Montreal on Sept. 8.

Give her a bottle and she’ll say anything.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Adam Pankratz: Just put EV mandate out of its misery already

Those with an attentive ear may have picked up on the distinct sound of sobbing emanating from the Department of Canadian Identity and Culture. They are the sobs of its minister, erstwhile minister of environment and climate change, Stephen Guilbeault, watching the slow but certain immolation of Canada’s electric vehicle sales mandate, as it goes up in smoke. Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that automakers would no longer need to have 20 per cent of their sales be zero emission vehicles, either fully electric or hybrid election, in 2026.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Cancelling EV sales mandate a sign of much bigger problems for taxpayers

Prime Minister Mark Carney was right to kill his government’s mandate that 20% of all new car sales in Canada had to be zero emissions vehicles starting next year – current sales are less than half that – but that’s just the tip of the iceberg of the problem.

The bigger problem is that, according to the Parliamentary Budget Office, Canada’s federal and provincial governments – mainly Ontario and Quebec – have earmarked up to $52.5 billion to subsidize 13 major Electric Vehicle supply chain projects, 14% more than the $46.1 billion the EV industry in Canada is spending on itself.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

How a Quebec battery plant promising economic growth turned into a money pit

In September 2023, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Quebec Premier François Legault stood on a Montreal stage alongside Northvolt executives and announced what they called a “historic” partnership: a plan to build a new mega-factory on Montreal’s South Shore.

It was to be called Northvolt Six — a plant that would churn out electric vehicle batteries, create 3,000 jobs and contribute more than $1 billion to the economy.

Both the provincial and federal governments rolled out the red carpet for Northvolt, a Swedish company, to woo them into choosing Quebec for their first major factory outside of Europe.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Is the zero-emission vehicle mandate dead or merely sleeping?

Mark Carney’s announcement on Friday that implementation of the federal government’s zero-emission vehicle mandate will be delayed by at least a year can be read as another retreat on climate policy from the new prime minister.

It can also be read as a small victory for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who had been calling on the government to abandon the policy.

That was certainly Poilievre’s own reading of events.

It’s not just Poilievre. The auto industry itself has been begging to have the ZEV cancelled entirely.

If a pause is simply a way to save face before full blown cancellation then so be it but Carney is a fanatic with many “friends” expecting to profit from the EV scam.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Automakers cheer pause on federal EV mandate, but want a full repeal of lunatic Liberal policy

Canada’s auto sector won a policy victory on Friday as Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a one-year pause on the federal electric vehicle mandate, which requires 20 per cent of all 2026 model year vehicles sold to be electric, but many in the industry are looking for even more changes.

The Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers Association, a lobby group for three United States-based automakers with operations in Canada, said it will continue to push for a full repeal of the EV mandate. To that end, Carney also announced a 60-day review of the EV mandate.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Canada delaying plan to force automakers to hit sales targets for EVs next year: sources

Prime Minister Mark Carney is delaying a plan to force automakers to hit minimum sales levels for electric vehicles next year, according to sources knowledgeable of the plans.

The move comes as the industry has struggled under U.S. tariffs

Sources, who spoke on the condition they not be named because they were not authorized to speak publicly, said the EV mandate will be put on pause as the government reviews the policy.

The 60-day review will look at the entire mandate and next steps, the sources said.

Not for a minute do I believe Carney has had a change of heart. He and his wife are ECO-Nazis, EV’s for them, shoe leather for you, that’s if you can afford shoes.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Quebec declares Northvolt battery plant partnership dead, loses $270M investment

Quebec’s Northvolt project is officially dead — and the government says it is cutting its losses.

Christine Fréchette, Quebec’s economy minister, announced Tuesday that the province will invest no further money in Northvolt Batteries North America.

“The company’s failure to present a satisfactory plan with regard to Quebec’s interests has led us to assert our rights in order to recover as much of our investment as possible,” Fréchette’s said in a statement. “This venture proved unsuccessful, and we are obviously disappointed.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Budget officer demands answers on ballooning EV subsidies

Canada’s budget watchdog is pressing Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne for updated figures on the true cost of Ottawa’s electric vehicle battery subsidies, warning taxpayers are being kept in the dark as the industry falters.

Budget Officer Yves Giroux wrote to the Department of Finance on August 14 asking for revised forecasts on both construction support and ongoing production subsidies.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

How China’s Market Dominance Tactics Call for Caution on EV Tariff Concessions

Beijing’s escalation of tariffs on Canadian agricultural products has prompted prominent voices such as Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe to push Ottawa to drop its tariffs on Chinese EVs.

The argument is that Ottawa’s tariffs primarily benefit the central Canada-based EV sector, while Western farmers bear the cost of China’s retaliation, including its recent 75.8 percent tariffs on Canadian canola. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has noted that China understands “divisions” in Canada and that it uses targeted tariffs to divide the country to Beijing’s advantage.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", Canada

Carney’s conundrum: Will he abandon some 40,000 farmers to save Canada’s auto industry?

You might have seen those bright yellow fields reaching toward the horizon under a clear blue sky — fields of canola spread across Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, bringing in billions of dollars each year for farmers and their families.

Now the annual harvest is in danger: one of Canada’s biggest customers, China, has slapped a 76 per cent tariff on canola seed, as well as a 100 per cent tariff on canola oil and meal. Why has it done this? In retaliation for the 100 per cent tariff Canada applied to Chinese electric vehicles starting last October. We were copying the United States at the time, back when relations between our two countries were more cordial, to protect the American and Canadian auto industries. But the Canadian sector, which operates mostly in Ontario, has yet to produce a single EV.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Contracts handed out to build Volkswagen subsidiary EV battery plant in Ontario amidst tariff uncertainty … meanwhile Porsche shutters EV battery division

The company behind the plan for a massive battery plant in southwestern Ontario says uncertainty in the electric vehicle market and U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs aren’t causing a rethink, as it marks a new milestone for the project.

PowerCo SE, founded by automaker Volkswagen, is currently building a gigafactory in St. Thomas, Ont., to produce batteries for its growing electric vehicle range.

Germany’s Porsche is closing battery subsidiary Cellforce, reports say

According to German media reports, the sports car maker has decided to largely shut down its battery-making and research subsidiary Cellforce, cutting hundreds of jobs.
German sports car giant Porsche plans to close the majority of operations at its subsidiary Cellforce, a factory for high-performance battery cells.

According to the German newspaper Der Spiegel, the sports car manufacturer plans to lay off around 200 of its 286 employees at the factory in Kirchentellinsfurt, Germany.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Ford’s ‘Model T moment’ couldn’t come at a worse time

Ford Motor calls its new electric vehicle initiative a “Model T moment” because of what the company says is its potential to revolutionize the sector the way its first car did for motoring more than a century ago.

But the automaker’s announcement last week that it will invest billions of dollars in a redesigned, value-priced EV pickup truck comes at a time when gale-force headwinds threaten to make the effort more of an Edsel moment – and not just for Ford.

It may be too dire to suggest Ford is walking into a propeller of anti-EV factors hampering the market. But the timing of its push could not be more challenging, as demand, sentiment and legislation are all going the wrong way.

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Can the ZEV mandate survive political pressure and industry objections?

With the federal carbon tax dead and gone, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has found a new target among the Liberal government’s climate policies — the electric vehicle availability standard, otherwise known as the zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate.

“We will legalize, into the future, your right to drive a gas or diesel-powered truck or car by repealing the Liberal EV mandate,” Poilievre said last week, while restating his desire to see a number of Liberal policies repealed.

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