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Yes, in Ontario, the generous electric car rebate program, funded by the carbon tax program, is over and done with. Ontario has one third of the population of Canada so the net effect is that 1/3 of Canada will likely shy away from electric cars.
As a Volt owner of over 6 years, I have noticed a lot of electric cars around now compared to 6 years ago when I was an early adopter. Electric cars no longer turn heads for example and I can’t go very far without seeing another electric vehicle. Unfortunately, that will come to a screeching halt now and new electric cars will be few and far between. Only the very dedicated and wealthy will purchase. The electric advantage will all but be wiped out over ICE vehicles now that the $14,000 incentive no longer applies.
My volt is 6 years old now and I fear one day I will need to replace it. I will likely go ICE and very reluctantly at that. The worst of it is, the governing body over this has $1 Billion collected from the carbon tax program that is legally required to only be spent on green energy or energy reduction. No one knows what will be done with that except maybe trying to illegally reduce the cost of beer.
Ontario is supposed to see reduced gas prices at the pump of 10 cents per litre as part of the abandonment of the carbon tax but there really is no way to tell as the market and oil company profits and constantly changing pump prices will completely obscure it if it even happens.
Ontario is putting 1/3 of Canada’s population into moving backwards on green energy with no future plan for any new programs. I wonder how long it is going to take other provinces and also US states to start doing the same thing and then I wonder when manufacturers start reducing the premium on electric vehicles? Until that happens, I will remain a 2013 volt owner as long as I can and I am certain most other EV owners are in the same boat seeing that many of them are in Ontario.
Only time will tell!
As a Volt owner of over 6 years, I have noticed a lot of electric cars around now compared to 6 years ago when I was an early adopter. Electric cars no longer turn heads for example and I can’t go very far without seeing another electric vehicle. Unfortunately, that will come to a screeching halt now and new electric cars will be few and far between. Only the very dedicated and wealthy will purchase. The electric advantage will all but be wiped out over ICE vehicles now that the $14,000 incentive no longer applies.
My volt is 6 years old now and I fear one day I will need to replace it. I will likely go ICE and very reluctantly at that. The worst of it is, the governing body over this has $1 Billion collected from the carbon tax program that is legally required to only be spent on green energy or energy reduction. No one knows what will be done with that except maybe trying to illegally reduce the cost of beer.
Ontario is supposed to see reduced gas prices at the pump of 10 cents per litre as part of the abandonment of the carbon tax but there really is no way to tell as the market and oil company profits and constantly changing pump prices will completely obscure it if it even happens.
Ontario is putting 1/3 of Canada’s population into moving backwards on green energy with no future plan for any new programs. I wonder how long it is going to take other provinces and also US states to start doing the same thing and then I wonder when manufacturers start reducing the premium on electric vehicles? Until that happens, I will remain a 2013 volt owner as long as I can and I am certain most other EV owners are in the same boat seeing that many of them are in Ontario.
Only time will tell!