Automakers aren’t serious about the all-electric future

A strategy that just focuses on bigger incentives without also increasing taxes on polluting cars would cause Canada to significantly miss its ZEV sales targets, and would cost $54-billion.

Auto companies make statements about how deeply committed they are to planet Earth and the all-electric future, but in the same breath say that zero-emission vehicle sales targets are unattainable, writes Nate Wallace.Flickr photograph courtesy of Noya Fields

Opinion

BY NATE WALLACE

May 10, 2023

Canada is poised to phase out sales of new gasoline cars by 2035 by requiring car companies to ramp up sales of electric vehicles. Reading industry co...

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