We're talking about 11 years in the future, and there's a ramp up included in the legislation. That's a long time, 11 years ago Tesla started selling the Model S, basically kicking off the current EV industry.

Definitely. A country who does this will be like Cuba is with all the old vehicles, and people doing everything they can to maintain them.

I think that really depends where you are. If you're in the US, sure. The US is far behind on infrastructure. If you're in Europe, it's much more viable. They have a lot more infrastructure (including much better public transportation) and EVs are actually viable as a replacement.

The reason you know nothing will be done about this is that they didn't set a small goal for the next few years, it's another one of those multi-decade lofty goals towards which nothing will be done and at the end will be said it's unrealistic. Like when Germany said the same.

Technically, with HVO, diesel engines can run without emissions. So "EV only" is not necessarily what this means...

If they set a 10 year goal it may take 20 years to hit 80% of goals, if they set a 20 year goal it'll take 40 years to hit 50%, if they set a 50 year goal...

Nobody thinks this is a realistic goal, but the target gives a concrete number to set a mandate on which actually pragmatic policies, funding projects, and incentives can hang their hat on to keep the ball rolling.

With big infrastructure developments, nobody wants to buy into realistic goals, it's too costly, and there's never enough political will. You set overly ambitious goals so you can get people to buy in and then the project is too big to fail, so you end up paying what it actually costs, and you try to mitigate waste, unanticipated problems, corruption, and poor management along the way.

We'll just have to carry gas generators on our electric trucks to drive to work in the bush I guess.

Sure they can. Look at Venus.

*brake

And it should, it's fairly toxic. Fortunately EV's primarily and almost exclusively use regen.

Of the direct operational sources of pollution:

• co2 - none
• ozone and exhaust particulates - none
• brake dust - almost none
• oil and fuel leaks - none
• tire dust - 20% more

EVs may not be perfect but they’re a HUGE improvement.

In the new euro 7 emission standard it does

No it's just they follow a global trend. Europe will stop too to sell mass produced cars with fuel. If it is under 1000 cars/model they can still use fuel.

And because people mix up federal and provincial powers

Interested to see where that data comes from, as looking at the lifetime emissions of an EV vs an ICE vehicle inclusive of fuel EVs are generally significantly lower emissions. If you're only considering the emissions associated with the manufacture of the vehicles, EVs do result in more GHG, but very quickly once both vehicles are actually in use the benefits of EVs become apparent.

EPA.gov

MIT

New York Times

University of Technology Sydney

Cambridge University

Dependable and available public transit is the answer to our transportation needs with electric vehicles substituted in areas where public transit presents implementation challenges.

Electric cars cannot be the backbone of our system if we look to reduce emissions and environmental hazards to a level that allows us to continue existence as we know it.

Are you saying that the emission resulting from an EVs production is the same as the emission from and olds car production and lifetime of fuel usage combined?

Carbon tax deals with industries that creates emissions by taxing the fuels that cause the emissions. All businesses involved in making EVs and EV parts can choose between using taxed GhG-emitting fuels, or non-taxed cheaper renewable sources. Free markets will pick the winner, but at least all winners will be producing EVs only.