Thursday, Statistics Canada released new vehicle sales figures for the first three months of 2022. Some of the numbers might surprise you.
“New gasoline-powered vehicles posted the largest decline, with 13.2 per cent fewer new registrations in 2022” than during the same three months in 2021, “followed by diesel-powered vehicles, down 11.8 per cent.
First, the federal govt insists their goal of 100 per cent of new cars being electric by 2035 is realistic because five per cent of new vehicles in Canada are already electrics or hybrids. That can’t be true, though, with a sales figure like that. I have nothing against EVs, per se. I can see myself owning one as soon as they can be made as cheap as gas vehicles, run as far on a charge as my current SUV runs on a tank of gas, take only as much time to recharge as it currently takes me to refuel and work as well in our winters as my ICE .They are a second or even third car for rich urbanites. A status symbol and a signal of how virtuous the owner is in caring about the planet.
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