First they came for the carbon tax, are electric vehicles next?

Canadian politicians at all levels have a choice: continue supporting a still-lucrative but damaging fossil fuel industry, or summon the courage and foresight to boost funding for the clean, proven technologies they claim to favour.

The slowing sale of EVs lends ballast to an indirect campaign by Big Oil, and its enablers, to undermine the transition away from gasoline, with torqued reports about the supposed unreliability of EVs in cold climates, writes Susan Riley.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SUSAN RILEY

April 22, 2024

CHELSEA, QUE.—Perhaps slowing sales of electric vehicles in Canada, industry caution, and political wobbles are a temporary phenomenon, prompted by the affordability crisis (although car sales, overall, remain brisk). The rapidly evolving technology of EVs also gives some ...

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