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The bumpy road to greener mobilityLast summer, Transport Minister Omar Alghabra announced that Canada’s federal government would ban sales of new cars and light-duty trucks with internal combustion engines by 2035. Just this month, the European Union agreed on the same target. The electrification of mobility is gaining speed. Carmakers are introducing more electric vehicles (EVs) and model choice, and battery manufacturers are scaling up production. Ontario will see a large battery plant being built by Stellantis and LG near Windsor. But how will all these EVs get charged? Will our infrastructure be ready? Federal and provincial governments have to choose carefully where they provide incentives as budgets are limited. What do smart policy designs look like? EVs will become more affordable as battery production scales up and innovation lowers costs—notwithstanding current supply chain issues. Targeting EV incentives based on purchase price thresholds is problematic and leads to opportunistic behaviour by producers and households. A better approach involves using household income to determine eligibility—as British Columbia does. It helps those whose decision is most swayed by subsidies. EVs are not strictly zero-emission vehicles if the electricity they use is not clean. Incentive programs should allow for this and decrease the subsidies proportional to the CO2-intensity of each province’s electricity generation. Where electricity isn’t clean, it would be better to encourage improved fuel economy of cars instead. Provincial and federal incentive programs also suffer from unnecessary duplication. Motorists have to navigate the different programs separately to take full advantage of available offers. This duplication is burdensome and ineffective. Perhaps the federal government should team up with clean-energy provinces and boost their local programs rather than running their own. Yet for many motorists the largest hurdle to adopting EVs is not the cost. It is the paucity of EV charging infrastructure
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California wins leave GOP poised to seize US House controlShould Democrats fail to protect their fragile majority, Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield would be in line to replace Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San…
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48,000 University of California academic workers on strikeNearly 48,000 unionized academic workers at all 10 University of California campuses walked off the job Monday, calling for better pay and benefits.
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Jennifer Siebel Newsom, California governor's wife, testifies at Harvey Weinstein trialJennifer Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker and the wife of Gavin Newsom, burst into tears a few minutes into her testimony Monday.
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