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Absolutely bonkers if these mandates are removed but tariffs on Chinese EVs remain. We have no domestic production of EVs and this will tell automakers they dont need to worry about building EVs or competing with China. These are insane policy decisions that just protect automaker profits and removes any incentive for them to adapt or compete.
Have you read the article?
Removing a 20% additional cost for next year's models seems prudent at a time when the industry is being slapped by American tarrifs. The other bit is a 60 day pause.
Maybe long term the solution is BYD, I personally don't think every country needs its own wasteful national EV program, it's a terrible white elephant project.
Long term, turns out our auto sector is entirely dependent on America doing what they promised, which is no longer a guarantee. Changing an entire national industry is much harder than it is in video games, and yeah, deciding whether to later be largely dependent on foreign car manufacturers and fighting out what to do with those factories and workers is incredibly complicated.
Tldr; wouldn't bother with pearl clutching about how this is destroying EV adoption in Canada etc.
Our auto sector isn't dependent on America. It's outright American. We have no Canadian auto manufacturers. We're just a resource labour colony run by the US to lower manufacturing costs.
I basically agree, it's really how you define the terms. We don't have Canadian manufacturers etc. But it's not straight up American, we also have Honda and Toyota.
And a lot of the world fights for any position on that resource chain as the almost 400K jobs in the sector are generally high paying, often low education requirements, hard to replace jobs with specialized, not always particularly transferrable skills. One of the last of the "good" manufacturing jobs and replacing it will be incredibly difficult.
Not for long, both only assemble here for the US market.
No company can survive in Canada for only the CDN market. There have been CDN car companies, they all failed.