Also very important to mention that Quebec is leading North America in EV adoption with 33% market share of new car sales-higher than even California! ⚡ Powered by renewables, massive lithium deposits, and a 2035 gas car ban firmly set, Quebec is charging ahead toward a sustainable future. Oil and ICE can not die off soon enough!
Can you imagine a future where literally 100% of cars are zero emission? The air would be so clean and the streets would be so quiet. Imagine a snowy day in New York and you won't see snow turn black from the exhaust of a car. Or driving behind a pickup truck and it's not spewing out clouds of black smoke. And most of these cars would be autonomous. How amazing will that future be... and let's not forget eVTOLs that are going to benefit from all of these advancements in battery tech and lowering costs.
Don't forget the reduction in the amount of cars on the road. And the Tesla Semi which will be the number one truck in the world. We will live to see it.
@@GregStark-ci4si if you think EVs are dirty, wait until you learn how dirty gas cars are... I can generate electricity for my car on my roof, provided for free by the sun. But 100% of gas cars are powered by dead life forms from millions of years ago. And you should add in the amount of fuel and energy required to pump, ship, refine, reship and bury the oil again so it can be pumped out of the back in a toxic fume that literally gives people cancer. Anyone who drives a gas car when they can afford an EV are morally ignorant.
@@GregStark-ci4si Some of the comments on this channel are bizarre, people have no idea how much pollution EV's cause, and how impractical they are for most of the world. It's just middle class city dwellers who think them a good idea.
I am from the Netherlands and we are one of the countries who has a decent coverage for loading ev's. We are now facing troubles with the electricity infrastructure, it cann't keep up with the speed of modernisation. The government and the electric suppliers have a very great challenge to accomplish a network what is capable for business (factories etc) and personal usage.
@@markmitchell590there is a "secret" strategie of the energie companies what causes this... They (energie companies) don't want to pay all the new infrastructure because of the shareholders. So they simply say to the government no time enough and no money enough...you have to help. All of that is crap off course. 13 year ago they predicted this scenario and that they have to update the grid, what did they do? They waited until the moment the first congestions started.
@@markmitchell590the electric companies delayed updating the power grid on purpose because they want to please their stockholders. 13 years ago the government and the electric companies where warned that the grid should be updated but of course they did not. The electric companies want the government to pay also an amount of the costs. So finally the consumers (industrie and everybody with ev and solar panels) are victims.
Work from home. Live in a beautiful neighborhood that people eagerly take care of because they love healthy walking. You could even call it "village life", just like the human beings do.
This what the governments of the world want. Limit your ability to travel by enforcing EVs on us. If they were serious about “green “net zero” and all those other taglines, they would be all in for the infrastructure long before now. The fact that they are so slow at putting the infrastructure out there shows they don’t care and it’s a case of “do as I say, not as I do.”
@@kevinW826 Are you sure it's the government doing it? Is it from any particular parts or forms of government, or is the want to restrict people more of a vague sense of overall badness surrounding everybody? Could it be the banks or the factory owners instead? Could it be the police or fire departments? WHO has this want that you describe, and who is not caring for you the way that you want to be cared for?
@@kevinW826 Tesla was a pioneer in Superchargers deployment in North America & other countries around the world. A forward looking Company built the infrastructure ahead of the deployment of EV vehicles. Now with the Big Subsidy from US Government to increase chargers deployment to all other Company, but not to Tesla. How fair is this?
Just left Delhi, India, the air quality index was 500. I was in an air conditioned bus and ate lunch in a luxury hotel and was dropped off at Terminal 3 for my international flight to Tokyo. That was three days ago and my lungs and sinus's are still burning. I should have worn a mask, had one.
I read a research report more than ten years ago, which showed that people who live near major traffic areas have a higher probability of developing leukemia.
The main health problems are asthma, lung cancer, heart disease ... and perhaps even leukemia. (haven't heard that one before this) EVs main impact will be improving human health in urban areas .....
EVs main impact will be in driving the poor off of the roads they are forced to pay for so the rich can have only their EV toys on them whilst the poor are consigned to the cattle trucks we call public transport.
The sale of horses and buggies was never banned, yet in industrialized western countries the vast majority of transport migrated from horse drawn to motorised within a decade of the start of mass production. A similar speed of adoption has been observed for other new technologies which are significant advancements. If EVs really are superior as claimed, no ban on the purchase of today's ultra clean new petrol and diesel cars would be necessary.
@@ShawnUrich Far worse. new York for instance had to clear almost a foot of horseshit per day, horse piss made the streets a running sewer. Summers were as bad as winter. Disease carried by the swarms of flies killed many.
Being in the US.. nothing is predictable. Honestly anything more than 4 years away is forever away. so many governments go soft on ban dates.. I expect that it will shift at least 5 years due to the lobbyists. but for Us in the US.. wish us luck... we will need it.
It does not matter what the government does, they are wimps. The people will make it happen. I predict an all electric fleet in a short time, because it is cheaper. The same with autonomous vehicles.
True - but hopefully these gas/ICE industry companies will have been forced by the market to almost completely transition or fold by then. Combined with similar international mandates/industrial transitions... maybe this timeframe isn't so far off. ?????
As the world moves ahead and leaves the USA behind, markets will force the issue no matter what big oil wants in the USA. EV adoption will take off as soon as the price drops and the infrastructure is common. I went solar in 2016 because my monthly lease payment was half my normal electric bill. When EVs are cheap to buy and insure, the math will move more of us. I did lease an EV in 2013 and there was no infrastructure to support it outside of my garage. So now I wait.
Quebec is a province, not a country. It's like saying the state of NSW is a country😅. It's as easy for Quebec to have all electric vehicles as it is for oil rich Alberta to have all ICE cars. Quebec has huge hydro electric resources. If they didn't have this, you can be sure they wouldn't be nearly as keen to have a electric vehicle mandate.
With time, the Coal power plants will be shut down, however can't shut down until the renewable energy are in place, with big battery storage as solution.
Okay, once you replace the ICE vehicles that create 43% of all of Canada's greenhouse emissions, you are going to need to generate a lot more electricity. Which dams are you building? Which nuclear power plants are you building? Because wind and solar are not at all feasible at scale in Canada, you are going to need to burn fossil fuels to generate your electricity, so the "savings" of greenhouse gasses are not nearly the amount advertised.
Do you have the right facts? Canada is a very big country. It's potential for solar and wind energy is near to the top of the list. It's a matter of political will and administrative planning.
If ONE country in the world has the potential to go 100% renewable, it is for sure Canada, with huge potential, not only in hydro, but in solar (why not? because it's cold in the winter? ), wind (have you ever experienced wind in the Great Plains or on the Canadian coastlines?), geothermal or tidal energies.
In Alberta we finished off Travers solar (13 square kilometers of solar panels) but its own by American Jeff Bezos. Alberta also shut down its last two coal power plants Genesee #1 and #2, and converted them to 60+% efficiency combined cycle natural gas. If China ever builds the 100 coal power plant equivalent Tsango river dam, and tasked it with producing solar panels for sale to North America. I can imagine you could have entire provinces and states carbon free in a matter of a couple decades.
No, you are HOPING there will be enough advancement so an EV can recharge as quickly as it takes to refuel an ICE vehicle, and that the cold in winter does not sap battery power and range. If it does not, there will be heck to pay. Also, who is going to build and pay for the infrastructure like power plants, transmission lines, and (most importantly) chargers. Lots of folks live in apartments, what about them?
Many people in China live in apartment buildings, and electric vehicles now account for over 50% of all vehicles sold. What do those who reside in apartment blocks do? Also, most of the time why would you even need or want a fast charger? Do you take your cell phone to a cell phone dealer to get it charged?
Sone EV' can charge to 80% in 18 minutes. The electrical infrastructure is in place now. So answer me this, can those people that live in apartments gas up there cars at their apartments???
@@MyJudgedread I like that you ask the question; "What do those who reside in apartment blocks do?", without giving an answer. If he is interested, he should do his own research.
Quebec the province and not the city announced the ban as noted at the beginning of the video. The weird thing is that Canada as a whole has a 2035 ban already. The only difference that I can tell is that PHEVs are included in the Quebec ban. So I am not sure why Quebec is doing this. This could be hard on people that need to tow big loads long distances.
@ It is true that battery tech and infrastructure will continue to improve. Hopefully it improves enough for people that want to tow long distances. You need long parking spots for charging stations. I suspect it will be one of the last steps in the switch over.
What strange scenario you just made up. None of that is true. All they are saying is new vehicles need to be non combustion. They can be battery or hydrogen. Of whatever type or manufacture you like. Just not burning oil to run.
We didn't need to ban record players when VHS or dvd was invented. Or old Nokia phones when smartphones came along. Better products replace old ones quickly and naturally. Why do EVs need so many subsidies and laws to force them into the market? We need to let the market work naturally else we stop driving innovation and change.
You’re missing the point. Record players & Nokia phones weren’t steam punk devices and didn’t cause health problems and environmental damage in the way that ICE cars do. That being the case there is a little more urgency in the transition and market forces alone particularly with the huge media push back from vested interests won’t enable the transition in a timely manner. So yes the product will sell itself but there needs to be a little stick as well as carrot.
@markbennett6658 so you're saying those devices had no intrinsic negatives and people still transitioned to better products without any external pressure? Makes the idea of a stick for cars even harder to understand? Also if it's that urgent then why put tariffs on Chinese EVs which solve this problem and provide clean cheap and high quality cars for the masses?? Where's the urgency now.
@@alicat398 I’m not saying that at all. Of course the subsequent products were better but Nokia phones didn’t emit dangerous radiation and your turntable record player didn’t have an exhaust pipe! No tariffs are really bad and just hold back the flood gates. In the UK because we left the EU there aren’t punitive tariffs on Chinese cars. We are pretty reactionary as a country though and our mainstream media is spreading FUD to try to put the brakes on the transition. Nevertheless there are quite a few electric Volvos and Polestars on the roads and BYDs are also slowly gaining traction, with other Chinese brands to follow. Nevertheless, some intervention is necessary to speed up the process, bearing in mind that ICE cars registered in 2030 (our mandate deadline) are still likely to be on the road chuffing fumes until at least 2045. Maybe the stick will become irrelevant but for now I’d say it’s a good thing.
I live in Quebec and I don't care the 50% drop in range in winter, (in fact more like 40%), because the summer range is good enough from the Kona 2025. Had a Volt for 10 years, and saved a lot of gas for 10 years, even with the drop of range in winter. Probably saved over 10,000$ over ten years. And no real mechanical problems costs, except for brakes, tires and suspension.
Have you ever driven an electric vehicle? If so, you would be able to answer your question. My electric car has about 400 kilometres of range in winter, which is more than enough, has ample room for my family and all sorts of luggage and goes like an ape on rocket fuel and steroids because it has more than 600 HP and torque to spare. All that with a quiet ride in perfect comfort. Charging is a breeze at quick chargers and usually doesn't take longer than 20 minutes max. It costs me about 2/3 of what I paid for my Alfa Romeo Giulia Veloce with half the power before. I'm not going back.
Your question is loaded with bad assumptions. First, you are incorrectly assuming that manufacturers of ICE cars don't receive any government assistance, and that the oil industry doesn't receive any government money. Second, you are failing to recognize that a government has an ethical responsibility to act in the public interest. Dangers of fossil fuel-based energy/transport (such as climate change and millions dying each year from pollution) are far greater than the dangers of sustainable energy/transport. As such, it is in the public interest for governments to encourage car companies and their customers to transition from ICE vehicles to EVs. One way for governments to do this is to offers financial incentives for switching. Another way is to put a deadline on the sale of new ICE vehicles. Third, you are assuming that if a country with an ICE vehicle industry ceases all subsidies and mandates, then its ICE vehicle industry would have a fair chance of surviving. That assumption is incorrect because even if an EV industry does not start up inside that country, EVs made in other countries (notably China) would be imported (without high import taxes, since you favour a free market) and the country's native ICE car industries would likely be destroyed by this competition. This would result in the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs within the country (bad for the economy), and also result in the country's export:import balance shifting towards exporting less and importing more (also bad for the economy). Since it is in the public interest to not let such bad things happen to a country's economy, its government has an ethical responsibility to try to prevent those bad things from happening.
It doesn’t matter about free market forces. Fossil fuel is poisoning our planet. If we just relied on the free market to give people what they want, which is cheap transportation, we would still be driving carbureted, gas powered cars without catalytic converters and burning leaded gas. And every city in the world would look like smog filled Los Angeles in the 1960’s, where everything looked like you were living in a sea of brown soup and visibility was less than 5 miles. We would also see extra millions of deaths per year due to lead poisoning, cancer, heart disease and lung disease from the smog. That is the whole reason that we have government, to protect people and make society safe, so that you can go and live your life without other people intentionally, or unintentionally killing you. Gas powered cars were fine in 1900 when the world population was 1.6 billion and only a small fraction of the population could afford cars. But now that the population is 8 billion and virtually everyone can afford a car, the air pollution is 10 times worse than it used to be. This madness has to stop.
I hope Quebec allows Chinese imports without tariffs. Once people ride in one, and realize how much cheaper and better they are, widespread adoption in North America will skyrocket.
Québec is in Canada and the federal government as already put a 100% tariff. The Chinese government subsidise Chinese EV makers. They sell EVs at a loss. They are doing this to take control of the market. Do you think it would be a good thing if China had control of the EV market globally? They got super rich by selling cheap stuff. How much richer are they going to get by selling EVs? Do you think China is a harmless country like Australia or Canada?
Well don’t you worry once gas cars are phased out it will be substituted by the growing space industry. You must be on the young end and have no experience with 50 year old cars from the pre catalytic converter era. Modern cars don’t pollute by comparison to the classics.
What you eat has a far bigger effect on health and yet the average doctor gets less than 20 hours in lectures on nutrition in their four years basic training. Carbs and sugar are the big killers not exhaust fumes.
Actually it doesn't change much since the market will make sure that at least 95% of all new cars are electric in 2030 anyway. But it sends a strong signal to all those car companies that believe they will be selling a lot of ICE cars after 2035. Maybe they should ask them self if they would by a cell phone now as their only mobile phone
I have an EV and I wouldn't have another one. That is what the market is telling them. I can buy a brand new £55k EV van in the UK for £25k with 5 miles on the clock because no-one wants them. That is the market and car makers and dealers are losing a fortune on each and every one.
@@jacquelinebrunder2384 ev vans are the biggest joke in a bag full of ev jokes...until they roll out something really stupid like an ev tracktor or something like that😜
If the ships transporting electric vehicles with vehicle to grid could start their voyage with fully charged vehicles, drain all that electricity to power the ship. How much fossil fuel would that save.
EVs are fine even in very cold temperatures as long as you plug them in when parked. Then they can be heated up from mains power and you set off fully charged. The government should require all workplaces and apartment buildings to fit chargers to facilitate this.
As a young boy I remember thinking how horrible it would be to breathe car fumes directly at the end of a car exhaust pipe. But like everyone else thought their dispersion in air made it of no concern. Even now when driving through high ground on either side of a motorway I think of the mass of polluted air we’re driving through. I believe the CO2 case is a scam but not the case for clean air. Animals need clean air too. Can you imagine what it must be like for a dog walking on the side of a road, at about the same height as most exhaust pipes?
Horse Powertrain Limited is a joint venture holding aimed at producing powertrains, including internal combustion engines (ICE) and hybrid systems. The venture holding was established in May 2024 and is equally owned by Renault and Geely. So, Renault and Geely are, of course, the next horses !!
I honestly don't think any bans are going to be necessary. The rate of technology advance is so fast that by 2030, maybe even earlier, those gas vehicles will just be like a steam was when it was replaced.
These cities that decide these things to go green are gonna be highly successful and getting people to move there because of how clean the air is going to be.
@@ChuckHolland-i4b The sky don't lie. Been there and not able to see a building 100 yards away. When covid was a thing and they locked everybody down the air did get better. It should clean up with less manufacturing and the ev's getting a license priority over gas.
I hope you're right about batteries and mileage by 2035 because here in the US the EV denial and resistance is strong its like everyone has gone insane. EVs have to become undeniably greater and cheaper than ICE ones. If you live elsewhere, you can't imagine the ICE mania that grips people here.
Canada has a nationwide mandate as well. Quebec is a province but there is Quebec City within the province. It is the province that has the ban. I am not sure why the province of Quebec also has its own ban on new ICE cars. It sounds redundant to me.
2035 is rather late to introduce the ban. At the outside it should be 2030 or preferably earlier. We’ve had so many years to transition away from combustion vehicles already. There is no reason even now for any new combustion cars to be manufactured. Eventually few companies will be making the spare parts that are so crucial (and annoying to replace) for fossil fuel burning cars: radiators, lead-acid start batteries, gaskets, valves, numerous pumps and filters, fan belts, exhausts, transmissions etc. Recent figures show gas stations are closing at an increasing and many are being replaced by charging stations. There will be a problem finding fuel stations at some point in the near future as the hydrocarbon fuel industry begins to decline
Ok here’s a simple question which is the elephant in the room… How on earth are they going to generate enough electricity to power the millions of EVs as well as everything else needing electricity? - like houses etc. Governments haven’t invested in charging networks or built additional power stations to generate the power needed. This whole thing is nuts.
Heard of Home Solar? Heard of the concept of Synergy? I have a 10 kW system installed on my roof, and over a 12-month period, I produce more electricity than I consume. As a result, I save a significant amount on my electricity bill. The electric vehicle (EV) revolution is closely linked with the solar photovoltaic (PV) revolution. This relationship is known as synergy.
Quebec and Newfoundland have just announced a deal to build additional facilities for Churchill Falls. Perhaps you could fact check before you make demonstrably incorrect statements.
Power generation is decentralising. The construction of solar and wind farms and battery storage is also democratising the energy sector. Many, many people are installing solar panels and wall boxes for home charging. Those who don’t are charging at off peak rates.
Not nuts at all Solar power on the roof , battery in the garage Hydro, wind, geothermal, solar power stations It’s been proven to work, without coal power backup
Ever wondered why people need all these incentives to buy EV's? Free parking, free charging, no road tax, free lanes, dotations, etc? Yeah, i think i know why🤭
In London there is a fire caused by an e-bike battery being recharged every 48 hours. I like the idea of zero emission cars ... but having them parked in underground carparks with people sleeping or working above them worries me. Having them on cross channel ferries ....ditto. Is this technology ready for mass use just yet.
Legacy manufacturers have relied on their reputation way past the sell-by date, at the same time ignoring the damage being done by yesterday’s technology and the new players now arriving.
While I fully support EVs I don’t currently see 100% EVs within the next 10years. The hardest to replace in terms of performance is the twin cab 4wd Ute. They have the combination of 5 passengers, payload capacity and tow capacity. The tow capacity issue you highlighted yourself with your review of the lightship L1. While some twin cab 4wd hybrid utes are out they lack the tow / payload capacity. I know the hype cycle is at play in the media and I really hope I’m wrong and you’re right. As for your bog standard on road passenger sedan, wagon, hatch or van easy 100% EV by 2035.
I love it when people boldly claim by 20xx we will have this, and these other things will do so and so. Even if all these technologies do happen against all odds, you then run up against a raft of new problems. So, you will have the problem of building more power generation for the vastly increased EV fleet. Then you will need a massive push for charging stations which will require a massive investment in cable infrastructure which itself will put enormous demand pressure on the supply and hence price of copper. Then on the other side of the equation you will need to mine to an enormous extent to provide the materials for EV batteries that will increase exponentially in number and this will occur in the poorest and most vulnerable countries with devastating effect on the environment and on the health and well being of the people that have to work and live near these abominations. Then you have the problem of recycling millions of tons of toxic battery waste which nobody has produced a solution for. By 2035 all that will happen is the governments of these countries will quietly put the deadline back to 2045 if they don't abandon it entirely. For if these EVs will be so fantastic that you would have to be "brain dead" to even consider buying an ICE, why the need for compulsion, hmm? Answer me that mr Viking.
Burning crude oil is a waste of a valuable resource. There are literally zillions of products which are produced from crude oil. Products that, handled correctly over their lifetime, have zero negative effects on the environment.
@@Adscam I know you meant is as sarcasm, but seriously, if plastics is a problem, scientific solutions and R&D should be invested to solve the problem.
I think most people would readily agree to buying an electric vehicle unfortunately governments keep putting levies on imports that make them expensive! So unless you live in a country that manufactures ev,s it’s very costly to change at the moment. I personally would buy an ev now but I live in Finland and cars here are extremely expensive it doesn’t matter if they are ice or ev the cost is high compared to other countries. I just wish the governments would give tax breaks but unfortunately they know they will loose too much revenue on fuel sales. It’s all down to tax, and money talks not the environment!.
Are you going to do a video about the container explosion in Florida caused by a flood-damaged Tesla, and the recall of almost 700,000 Teslas due to faulty TPMS warnings?
Funny 2 jerks never care even millions of gasoline car recalled and dozens of oil factory explosion happens all these years but they only care about Tesla recall and Florida explosion
@0:01 *Québec* is a province as well as a city. And *Canada* second largest city is *Montréal.* Anyway, this merely says that they are planning to stop by 2035. This is an oxymoron of _old news._
When Trudeau is booted out in the near future, the ICE ban will disappear almost instantly. I'm a fan of EV, but not forcing them on people who don't want them. All the research in the world is making EVs better. Let them be sold on their own merits.
ICE ban will not disappear even when Trudeau is out. Canadians want Climate action even if the Poilievre gang wins the election & the axe the tax movement will fizzle when people realize that 8 out of 10 people in Canada benefit from the Carbon Tax check we receive every 3 months!
@ yes I know. But the reference was to a provincial jurisdiction and not a municipal jurisdiction. So it must be the province of Quebec and not Quebec City which has banned the sale of diesel or pure ICE cars by 2035.
I enjoy your show and I happily would buy an EV, problem is I live in the country and there’s bugger roll places to charge. And I have no way of charging an EV here even if I wanted to. And I don’t want a lithium vehicle at this time. Elsewise I like them
Hello Chemistry is the key for battery innovation. Chemistry is the reason a battery can deliver electricity. I must the question our ability to store ever increasing amounts of power since chemistry is the issue. As far as Diesel goes, as fuel, there is nothing that stores, transports and delivers energy like gasoline and diesel. Regards
Well, that would kill Class B RV sales, as they might have no resale value in 10 years. Along with some of the Class C. And people might stop buying new cars for a couple of years, waiting to see what comes out. Or switch to leasing, which should become more expensive as residual values plummet.
The Canada ban allows PHEV partly because of this reason. You could buy the PHEV outside of Quebec and bring it in. It could also be that the battery tech improves enough that it wouldn't make too much of a difference.
Do you receive money from EV companies? Just wondering how you plan on recycling those millions of batteries? Any plan to stop thermal battery run aways in public spaces? Any plan to keep first responders safe at an EV collision site? Any plan to keep kids safe when their school bus self ignites? oh, and where is the electricity going to come from to recharge theses EV's ... monkey dust, chicken farts ...Hmm, coal fired powerplants?
Right now there is no consideration for the harm to human health that fossil fuels and ICE vehicles do and in America, the MAGA right has no consideration for the harm to the environment either and that will kill far more people and animals in the long run. All Fossil fuel companies should be nationalized and profits clawed back for damages.
MAGA does not care? Why does Elon Musk, the individual who has done more than any other to lead the charge to EVs, support MAGA? Get out of your lefty echo chamber and engage your brain!
I wonder how the range is going to be effected by cold and the length of journeys which is emense . The lack of infrastructure will cripple the long journeys. Until you have the 1000 km range of a truck pulling a trailer. In cities the electric vehicles are great and can be the best solution. Totally agree with that. But hybrid is a better solution for long journeys. The other problem is where are you going to get the electricity from? Mostly from oil gas and coal , so electric vehicles are not clean by any means. The only way they are clean is they don't polute locally this is just how it is. I am not even fracturing the amount of pollution from raw materials to finished vehicles. Hydrogen is an alternative but i think you are right it is a bad fuel for many reasons and extremely dangerous so happy to see it off the roads. I think there is feeling of running before walking here. I think in the next 30 years there's going to be a great shift to mostly EVs but this false alarm and bold statements about doing it 5 years or even 10 years is far too artificial targets for no real reason. You are not going to see a sudden drop in pollution in that time frame. It will take nearly as long as it took to alter it. China is a major problem with coal powered industry. It agrees to international understandings but it doesn't seem to walk the walk. But i will say they are very keen to get the major cities all electric as pollution is staggering in some of them. But they still produce most electrical power by fossil fuels at the moment.
@@darylbrice Wouldn't the supply go down if the demand goes down? With low economies of scale, production cost and hence prices should go up, wouldn't it?
@@adamiskandar5107the price of a barrel crude oil might drop, but the price at the pump will go higher and higher… Governments want to get rid of getting extorted by oil producing countries. Thus they raise the tax on it constantly. We now pay 2.00 - 2.50 per litre. That will double or even worse.
For nordic countries like Canada, it seems foolish to hope for technological change to meet a government mandated fuel mandate. It was minus 20 in western Canada for a week and unless you’re lucky to have covered parking with in-house charging, outdoor charging is goofy right now. Does anyone think the power grid will accommodate charging for all in a decade? Municipal governments can’t handle homelessness, immigration issues like housing and take 5 years to do a simple bridge. These mandates are great for rich people. Poor people buy used cars for cheap. Is there such a thing as a cheap used EV that doesn’t have a potential battery replacement issue or major repair lurking?
The author only talks about EV cars. He doesn't know that Quebec province has a whole industry producing power plants for small atv, watercraft and personal planes. I think the ban is fair as they don't touch the heavy duty industry either.
I just left China and the electric scooters are everywhere. Rentals too. You have to be very careful walking because they are silent. I will take the clean air over the risk any day.
@@rassabossa4554 China have their own traffic regulations and the people there are used to it. For foreigners whose countries have a different system, they will see it as somewhat haphazard, like a bit dangerous. I was there for about a week and I do feel their system is a bit dangerous, but in that 1 week, I had not witness an accident. It was like a miracle, amazing.
@ I feel the same. It was very chaotic but somehow it works. I never saw any road rage. I did see one accident that happened about one mile an hour. A car was trying to slip around a big truck that was stopped. The driver of the truck would not have been able to see the car trying to squeeze by him. It was completely in his blind spot. The truck started moving forward and I heard a crunch….wasn’t sure what it was…we were all stopped at a light and I was in a taxi a few feet away. Clearly the car’s fault trying to squeeze in from the right. They just got out and started taking pictures, no yelling or name calling.
The market should drive (no pun intended) the car industry. Government should stay out of businesses. A free market is moraly and economically superior to socialism.
Plus it wastes a massive amount of water. Imagine every car dripping water. It would also make the road surfaces wet. it could even cause climate change, as the water would not get absorbed and simply evaporate into the atmosphere. A typical hydrogen car emits about 0.05-0.1 litres of water per kilometre. Scaling this up globally could mean billions of litres of water released daily into the environment. Widespread use of hydrogen vehicles could lead to persistently wet roads in high-traffic areas, potentially increasing wear and tear or hazards like slipperiness and ice formation in cold regions. Water vapor is a greenhouse gas, albeit weaker than CO₂. A massive shift to hydrogen vehicles could marginally increase atmospheric moisture, which might amplify warming effects in specific microclimates.
"Harvard University, in collaboration with the University of Birmingham, the University of Leicester and University College London, found that more than 8 million people died in 2018 from fossil fuel pollution, significantly higher than previous research suggested-meaning that air pollution from burning fossil fuels like coal and diesel was responsible for about 1 in 5 deaths worldwide."
Which countries were the deaths. London was a Diesel nightmare in the 1990's. But they cleaned up the European air and left poorer nations to fend for themselves. Out of sight, out of mind.
Also... Fossil fuel exhaust produces nitrogen that accumulates along road sides and wild areas. This has caused the loss of many wild flowers that need a low fertility soil to survive... See Bigger university
Many motorcycle riders love the sound their bikes make and the thunderous feel. An electrical bike can't give them that visceral feeling. For them, "Nothing beets a Harley". There will always be a market for enthusiast. Unfortunately for them, it will become expensive to maintain their hobby in the future.
Our new American muscle cars have noise generators that mimic the sound of combustion engines. We can do the same for Harley's. And the customer can forgo the expense of adding an after market exhaust system to make those cool sounds. But I suspect without laws outlawing ICE, we will see (and hear) them on the road still for the next 75 years. Enjoy!
I disagree with banning them. Additionally, it is kind of a pointless virtue signaling move. Nobody in their right mind is going to buy a gas car in 2035 that cost 3x the price of a comparable EV.
Wake Up! they are reused for grid storage and then recycled. What do they do with burned gas? Where is all that toxic material and CO2 dumped? The ICE car thing is nuts!
Absolutely pathetic that the only way governments can lift EV sales is by banning the preferred competition. I loathe government interference in relation to EV mandates. They are not a solution to our needs.
We have to adopt Clean Energy vehicles. Our health is at risk from air pollution caused by burning oil & gas & coal. That is why a good Government will mandate this for the future of our children, unless you don't give a hoot about the future, meaning you are a lost cause.
The consumer will push gas cars off the ledge well before 2035. Just from pure economics. If a family of 4 can save 2 to 4k per years on fuel and maintenance, its a no brainer. In fact, once robo taxi prices get low enough, many wont even bother having a car.
You mean for middle class people in Western cities, only. The rest of the planet are not buying EV's at all. I live in Mexico the past 4yrs, I've seen 2 Teslas in 4yrs.
This video is not going to age well. Quebec will be forced to push back their 2035 ban. This will cause a massive ageing of the vehicle fleet, because people will hang onto their petrol and diesel vehicles. The fact that emergency vehicles are exempted tells you everything you need to know. If you want your vehicle to work in an emergency, you want a petrol or diesel car. You absolutely will be stranded by your EV if the power goes out in a storm. Unless you have a petrol or diesel generator of course. But what's the point of that? Just drive a petrol or diesel car, AND have a petrol/diesel generator for power backup for your home.
We need to make billions of ICE cars before these crazy rules destroy everything. ICE cars have been great for the climate in northern Europe as the winters are getting milder and summers longer and hotter. Lets all help to increase global warming.
You hear this argument a lot. Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has used it. Donald Trump has used it. The idea is that more people die in cold weather than in heat waves. However it ignores the fact that even if in some regions like northern Europe, people temporarily experience milder winters, the overall consequences of global warming throughout the rest of the world will be overwhelmingly negative. These will include increased frequency of heatwaves, droughts, and floods, etc, which will harm agriculture, infrastructure, habitable living zones and human health. Rising sea levels will also displace large populations of people. Long-term climate stability will collectively benefit everyone in the world including northern Europe. Clinging to outdated ICE technology also risks falling behind in a rapidly evolving global economy which will be transitioning to sustainable energy and EV manufacturing. This in turn will create new jobs and will increase opportunities for technological advancements and further economic growth.
I am sure there are other ways of increasing global warming. If EVs are cheaper than ICE cars, would it still make sense to promote ICE cars? You don't believe in Capitalism, do you?
... and do they have the infrastructure to support an electric economy? And how much will such an economy cost" Well, we already know that - all we have to do is look at what has happened in Germany and is in process in Britain... Ruin our economies which pay for research and implementation - by passing legislation that doesn't take that into account. Its not about the EV cars its about the cost and difficulties of putting the infrastructure and power generation in place. ... and the cost of having politicians who pay no price for the policies they legislate.
Well UK is a third world country now so it's pretty obvious they won't be able to keep up with an advanced nation like China or even Thailand. As to Germany, they cut themselves off from cheap Russia gas on orders from Biden -- and they're in a HELL of a mess. Has little to do with EVs though.... almost all their industries are having problems with energy costs the last couple of years.
@@hariseldon3786the amount of electricity needed to power 100% electric cars in the UK is smaller than the amount the total electricity demand has fallen since 2003. It's just not the problem people think it is. We need to upgrade some cabling to get the electricity from the different places it's now being generated to where it's needed, and some of the distribution network needs improvement.
Pointless!!! Why does any government need to interfere with something that is happening on its own. So few people will want gas powered cars when they will cost more to produce due to lack of volume. Electric cost to produce is coming down rapidly. So few people will want to buy on those terms, why shouldn't they be able to buy if the manufacturers can still produce?
@adamiskandar5107 they pay now in carbo credits. Tesla makes billions every year from their lame compediters. Also forcing lame legacy auto out. The government doesn't need to have their hand in this anymore. Stupid legacy already f'd around and found out. At this point, they're only being kicked while they're down.
It is easier to control pollution with scrubbers at the 12 exhaust stacks of our local power plant than it is to control the pollution from 10M individual cars in this region.
@@ChuckHolland-i4b Because it costs to much. We can reduce pollution by burning coal and not gasoline art the same time reduce the amount of cars on the road (robo-taxi's). We can eliminate coal by using batteries and solar power.
I will definitely NOT buy an EV before 2035 because most of EV problems that we face today may be sorted out by the end of 2035. If the horrible EV problems that we have to deal with now is not ironed out by 2035, then I will simply drive my latest ICE car for as long as possible after 2035. There is no point in buying EV's before 2035.
Quebec better start importing Chinese and EU EVs since the US OEMs won't be able to make enough. Possibly Tesla's robo-taxi will take up a lot of the slack? However with Justin Trudeau about to be ousted and Trump coming into office, I kind of doubt these bans will stay in place. What will win the day is cost and convenience. If EVs become much cheaper than ICE vehicles and charging infrastructure more ubiquitous, the dominoes will fall with or without bans.
Viking has convinced me to NOT buy an EV, at least not right now. He makes the case that in just a couple of years batteries will be twice as energy dense as what I could get now, the range will much better, and the price of an EV in a couple of years will be dramatically lower than it is now. If he is right it makes no sense to buy now, wait a couple of years.
Would you buy now if it's proven that it's cheaper in terms of purchase cost plus maintenance compared to an ICE vehicle?, and also the fact that it contributes to cleaner air in the city you live in? Being cheaper in ten years is a bonus.
@ I agree with all your assumptions, cheaper, better for environment. I am just going to wait for two or three years and get a much better EV at a much lower price than I can get today. I am 70 and me next car will probably be my last car.
@@adamiskandar5107 Everybody would. But the depreciation on electrics is poor and as he says, if the tech keeps ramping up EV's will have the resale curve of smartphones.
I live in Québec and I ear this news from an Australian. But Québec is a province not a country.
Simon isn't very smart.... (edit) oops, I mean Sam.
@@RoverIAC wr
Funny, Canada and Australia are practically nabouring countries, only the Pacific Ocean i devides them!
@@RoverIAC Who is Simon Rovey?
@@RoverIAC I don't know who is Simon. It's obvious to me that this Sam Evans guy has got an above average I.Q.
Also very important to mention that Quebec is leading North America in EV adoption with 33% market share of new car sales-higher than even California! ⚡ Powered by renewables, massive lithium deposits, and a 2035 gas car ban firmly set, Quebec is charging ahead toward a sustainable future. Oil and ICE can not die off soon enough!
American built evs??
Tesla Giga Texas
@@SparkySho All EV except Chinese.
Can you imagine a future where literally 100% of cars are zero emission? The air would be so clean and the streets would be so quiet. Imagine a snowy day in New York and you won't see snow turn black from the exhaust of a car. Or driving behind a pickup truck and it's not spewing out clouds of black smoke. And most of these cars would be autonomous. How amazing will that future be... and let's not forget eVTOLs that are going to benefit from all of these advancements in battery tech and lowering costs.
Don't forget the reduction in the amount of cars on the road. And the Tesla Semi which will be the number one truck in the world. We will live to see it.
Do you realize how dirty the whole EVs lifecycle is, right? Think globally!
@@GregStark-ci4si if you think EVs are dirty, wait until you learn how dirty gas cars are... I can generate electricity for my car on my roof, provided for free by the sun. But 100% of gas cars are powered by dead life forms from millions of years ago. And you should add in the amount of fuel and energy required to pump, ship, refine, reship and bury the oil again so it can be pumped out of the back in a toxic fume that literally gives people cancer. Anyone who drives a gas car when they can afford an EV are morally ignorant.
@@GregStark-ci4si How dirty?
@@GregStark-ci4si Some of the comments on this channel are bizarre, people have no idea how much pollution EV's cause, and how impractical they are for most of the world. It's just middle class city dwellers who think them a good idea.
I am from the Netherlands and we are one of the countries who has a decent coverage for loading ev's. We are now facing troubles with the electricity infrastructure, it cann't keep up with the speed of modernisation. The government and the electric suppliers have a very great challenge to accomplish a network what is capable for business (factories etc) and personal usage.
And this is with what? Less than 5% of the vehicle fleet?
@@markmitchell59014% at this moment.
@@markmitchell590there is a "secret" strategie of the energie companies what causes this... They (energie companies) don't want to pay all the new infrastructure because of the shareholders. So they simply say to the government no time enough and no money enough...you have to help.
All of that is crap off course.
13 year ago they predicted this scenario and that they have to update the grid, what did they do? They waited until the moment the first congestions started.
At the moment Google says around 14% @@markmitchell590
@@markmitchell590the electric companies delayed updating the power grid on purpose because they want to please their stockholders. 13 years ago the government and the electric companies where warned that the grid should be updated but of course they did not. The electric companies want the government to pay also an amount of the costs.
So finally the consumers (industrie and everybody with ev and solar panels) are victims.
Work from home. Live in a beautiful neighborhood that people eagerly take care of because they love healthy walking. You could even call it "village life", just like the human beings do.
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This what the governments of the world want. Limit your ability to travel by enforcing EVs on us.
If they were serious about “green “net zero” and all those other taglines, they would be all in for the infrastructure long before now.
The fact that they are so slow at putting the infrastructure out there shows they don’t care and it’s a case of “do as I say, not as I do.”
@@kevinW826 Are you sure it's the government doing it? Is it from any particular parts or forms of government, or is the want to restrict people more of a vague sense of overall badness surrounding everybody? Could it be the banks or the factory owners instead? Could it be the police or fire departments?
WHO has this want that you describe, and who is not caring for you the way that you want to be cared for?
@@kevinW826 Tesla was a pioneer in Superchargers deployment in North America & other countries around the world. A forward looking Company built the infrastructure ahead of the deployment of EV vehicles. Now with the Big Subsidy from US Government to increase chargers deployment to all other Company, but not to Tesla. How fair is this?
Just left Delhi, India, the air quality index was 500. I was in an air conditioned bus and ate lunch in a luxury hotel and was dropped off at Terminal 3 for my international flight to Tokyo. That was three days ago and my lungs and sinus's are still burning. I should have worn a mask, had one.
Ok, but no mask for me. I am an American and have nostril hairs and booger like all self-respecting no mask mandate guy that I am 😂
@@Adscam I don't think anyone asked actually.
Did you eat rice?
I read a research report more than ten years ago, which showed that people who live near major traffic areas have a higher probability of developing leukemia.
The main health problems are asthma, lung cancer, heart disease ... and perhaps even leukemia. (haven't heard that one before this)
EVs main impact will be improving human health in urban areas .....
EVs main impact will be in driving the poor off of the roads they are forced to pay for so the rich can have only their EV toys on them whilst the poor are consigned to the cattle trucks we call public transport.
Where does the electricity that charges EVs come from?Just asking for a confused friend.
In UK over the year. 28% from gas. No coal. Rest from wind solar nuclear biofuels hydro and imports...hope this helps
In Quebec it mostly comes from hydro.
The sale of horses and buggies was never banned, yet in industrialized western countries the vast majority of transport migrated from horse drawn to motorised within a decade of the start of mass production. A similar speed of adoption has been observed for other new technologies which are significant advancements. If EVs really are superior as claimed, no ban on the purchase of today's ultra clean new petrol and diesel cars would be necessary.
What "ultraclean" vehicles are those?
Couldn't agree with you more. These people love to be controlled.
Do horses cause the same health problems as ICE vehicles?
@@Longtack55 I bought an S-Max 2.0 TDCi Euro 6d-TEMP in the spring, the exhaust really doesn't get much out of it..
@@ShawnUrich Far worse. new York for instance had to clear almost a foot of horseshit per day, horse piss made the streets a running sewer. Summers were as bad as winter. Disease carried by the swarms of flies killed many.
Where will you get the power for charging?
Renewable energy cost is trending down very quickly. Of course, if you don't plan, you fail.
Hydroelectric, massive methane powered turbines, renewables. Or you can get a horse and buggy and burn whale oil for light.
Quebec is a major exporter of hydro power. Most of New York city and major centers north of NYC get their power from Qubec.
Being in the US.. nothing is predictable. Honestly anything more than 4 years away is forever away. so many governments go soft on ban dates.. I expect that it will shift at least 5 years due to the lobbyists. but for Us in the US.. wish us luck... we will need it.
It does not matter what the government does, they are wimps. The people will make it happen. I predict an all electric fleet in a short time, because it is cheaper. The same with autonomous vehicles.
True - but hopefully these gas/ICE industry companies will have been forced by the market to almost completely transition or fold by then. Combined with similar international mandates/industrial transitions... maybe this timeframe isn't so far off.
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Once gas hits $8 a gallon lobbyists will have no luck pitching ICE
As the world moves ahead and leaves the USA behind, markets will force the issue no matter what big oil wants in the USA. EV adoption will take off as soon as the price drops and the infrastructure is common. I went solar in 2016 because my monthly lease payment was half my normal electric bill. When EVs are cheap to buy and insure, the math will move more of us. I did lease an EV in 2013 and there was no infrastructure to support it outside of my garage. So now I wait.
Quebec has always strategically leveraged its huge hydroelectric resources. Aluminum is a big example. EVs likewise.
Quebec has a rigged electrical market due to the, for now, dirt cheap power they get from Labrador hydro and that won't last.
Quebec is a province, not a country. It's like saying the state of NSW is a country😅. It's as easy for Quebec to have all electric vehicles as it is for oil rich Alberta to have all ICE cars. Quebec has huge hydro electric resources. If they didn't have this, you can be sure they wouldn't be nearly as keen to have a electric vehicle mandate.
If Trump has it his way, Canada would become a province. Quebec would be a province within a province.
So is your point there is no problem with Quebec going all electric?
Even Alberta is a leader in solar panel deployment out west!
No ban on trucks? No ban on coal fired power stations? Without these it’s pointless. In uk cars only produce 9% of CO2 emissions.
CO2 emissions are just an excuse to impoverish the population.
With time, the Coal power plants will be shut down, however can't shut down until the renewable energy are in place, with big battery storage as solution.
Okay, once you replace the ICE vehicles that create 43% of all of Canada's greenhouse emissions, you are going to need to generate a lot more electricity. Which dams are you building? Which nuclear power plants are you building? Because wind and solar are not at all feasible at scale in Canada, you are going to need to burn fossil fuels to generate your electricity, so the "savings" of greenhouse gasses are not nearly the amount advertised.
Do you have the right facts? Canada is a very big country. It's potential for solar and wind energy is near to the top of the list. It's a matter of political will and administrative planning.
Canada is mostly hydroelectric, not a problem to go to EVs.
If ONE country in the world has the potential to go 100% renewable, it is for sure Canada, with huge potential, not only in hydro, but in solar (why not? because it's cold in the winter? ), wind (have you ever experienced wind in the Great Plains or on the Canadian coastlines?), geothermal or tidal energies.
@@st-ex8506winter is not only cold, but also dark, way less day time. Solar is expensive and unreliable in Germany.
In Alberta we finished off Travers solar (13 square kilometers of solar panels) but its own by American Jeff Bezos.
Alberta also shut down its last two coal power plants Genesee #1 and #2, and converted them to 60+% efficiency combined cycle natural gas.
If China ever builds the 100 coal power plant equivalent Tsango river dam, and tasked it with producing solar panels for sale to North America. I can imagine you could have entire provinces and states carbon free in a matter of a couple decades.
No, you are HOPING there will be enough advancement so an EV can recharge as quickly as it takes to refuel an ICE vehicle, and that the cold in winter does not sap battery power and range. If it does not, there will be heck to pay. Also, who is going to build and pay for the infrastructure like power plants, transmission lines, and (most importantly) chargers. Lots of folks live in apartments, what about them?
Many people in China live in apartment buildings, and electric vehicles now account for over 50% of all vehicles sold. What do those who reside in apartment blocks do?
Also, most of the time why would you even need or want a fast charger? Do you take your cell phone to a cell phone dealer to get it charged?
Sone EV' can charge to 80% in 18 minutes. The electrical infrastructure is in place now. So answer me this, can those people that live in apartments gas up there cars at their apartments???
@@MyJudgedread I like that you ask the question; "What do those who reside in apartment blocks do?", without giving an answer. If he is interested, he should do his own research.
@@MyJudgedread Well go and live in China if you think it's that good.
@@carlfromtheoc1788 You are paying, that is all.
in 2030, 1 in 5 cars sold in Canada must be an EV. The EV requirement will gradually get to 100% by 2035.
Quebec the province and not the city announced the ban as noted at the beginning of the video. The weird thing is that Canada as a whole has a 2035 ban already. The only difference that I can tell is that PHEVs are included in the Quebec ban. So I am not sure why Quebec is doing this. This could be hard on people that need to tow big loads long distances.
By that time, there will be newer Batteries that will do the job. Tesla Semi can already do 500 miles with a 82,000lbs gross weight in 1 stretch!
@ It is true that battery tech and infrastructure will continue to improve. Hopefully it improves enough for people that want to tow long distances. You need long parking spots for charging stations. I suspect it will be one of the last steps in the switch over.
@yodaiam1000 Tesla already developed charging Superchargers stall for EV pulling traiter & will ramp up in the future.
@ Hopefully they become more ubiquitous.👍
A world where someone dictates what vehicle you drive, where it's made and where you're going in it !,makes North Korea sound like paradise.
@@jasoneldridge4738 North Korea is not my world. How much polution is created in this Country ?
What strange scenario you just made up. None of that is true. All they are saying is new vehicles need to be non combustion. They can be battery or hydrogen. Of whatever type or manufacture you like. Just not burning oil to run.
I'm just glad I've lived long enough to see the future come to past Thanks Sam
Finally. Less cancer due to car exhaust. Finally.
Eating carbs is giving people cancer not breathing lovely CO2 exhaust fumes.
And how many kids have to die digging rare earths for EVs?
lol
@@Suburp212 Hahaha
@@johnb4183 Glad you find it funny - just proves the mental thought patterns of EV activists.
Twenty thousand new people. You deserve two million. The quality and the depth and quantity of information is exceptional.
Clickbait title and a lots of wannabe info.
Ev range will be double .....the cost of electric will be 8 times
Not if you have renewable energy at your house, you will be exonerated from future electricity cost increase.
Quebec has very cheap electricity with all the hydro power
We didn't need to ban record players when VHS or dvd was invented. Or old Nokia phones when smartphones came along. Better products replace old ones quickly and naturally. Why do EVs need so many subsidies and laws to force them into the market? We need to let the market work naturally else we stop driving innovation and change.
You’re missing the point. Record players & Nokia phones weren’t steam punk devices and didn’t cause health problems and environmental damage in the way that ICE cars do. That being the case there is a little more urgency in the transition and market forces alone particularly with the huge media push back from vested interests won’t enable the transition in a timely manner. So yes the product will sell itself but there needs to be a little stick as well as carrot.
@markbennett6658 so you're saying those devices had no intrinsic negatives and people still transitioned to better products without any external pressure? Makes the idea of a stick for cars even harder to understand? Also if it's that urgent then why put tariffs on Chinese EVs which solve this problem and provide clean cheap and high quality cars for the masses?? Where's the urgency now.
@@alicat398 I’m not saying that at all. Of course the subsequent products were better but Nokia phones didn’t emit dangerous radiation and your turntable record player didn’t have an exhaust pipe! No tariffs are really bad and just hold back the flood gates. In the UK because we left the EU there aren’t punitive tariffs on Chinese cars. We are pretty reactionary as a country though and our mainstream media is spreading FUD to try to put the brakes on the transition. Nevertheless there are quite a few electric Volvos and Polestars on the roads and BYDs are also slowly gaining traction, with other Chinese brands to follow. Nevertheless, some intervention is necessary to speed up the process, bearing in mind that ICE cars registered in 2030 (our mandate deadline) are still likely to be on the road chuffing fumes until at least 2045. Maybe the stick will become irrelevant but for now I’d say it’s a good thing.
@@alicat398 Politics only.
Quebec is so cold in the winter. Good luck with half the range for half the year.
I live in Quebec and I don't care the 50% drop in range in winter, (in fact more like 40%), because the summer range is good enough from the Kona 2025. Had a Volt for 10 years, and saved a lot of gas for 10 years, even with the drop of range in winter. Probably saved over 10,000$ over ten years. And no real mechanical problems costs, except for brakes, tires and suspension.
I wonder how EV sales would go if it was left up to the free market and not government mandates
Have you ever driven an electric vehicle? If so, you would be able to answer your question. My electric car has about 400 kilometres of range in winter, which is more than enough, has ample room for my family and all sorts of luggage and goes like an ape on rocket fuel and steroids because it has more than 600 HP and torque to spare. All that with a quiet ride in perfect comfort. Charging is a breeze at quick chargers and usually doesn't take longer than 20 minutes max. It costs me about 2/3 of what I paid for my Alfa Romeo Giulia Veloce with half the power before. I'm not going back.
I wonder how ice engine sales would go if governments didn't spend billions ever-year subsidizing the oil and gas industry?
Your question is loaded with bad assumptions.
First, you are incorrectly assuming that manufacturers of ICE cars don't receive any government assistance, and that the oil industry doesn't receive any government money.
Second, you are failing to recognize that a government has an ethical responsibility to act in the public interest. Dangers of fossil fuel-based energy/transport (such as climate change and millions dying each year from pollution) are far greater than the dangers of sustainable energy/transport. As such, it is in the public interest for governments to encourage car companies and their customers to transition from ICE vehicles to EVs. One way for governments to do this is to offers financial incentives for switching. Another way is to put a deadline on the sale of new ICE vehicles.
Third, you are assuming that if a country with an ICE vehicle industry ceases all subsidies and mandates, then its ICE vehicle industry would have a fair chance of surviving. That assumption is incorrect because even if an EV industry does not start up inside that country, EVs made in other countries (notably China) would be imported (without high import taxes, since you favour a free market) and the country's native ICE car industries would likely be destroyed by this competition. This would result in the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs within the country (bad for the economy), and also result in the country's export:import balance shifting towards exporting less and importing more (also bad for the economy). Since it is in the public interest to not let such bad things happen to a country's economy, its government has an ethical responsibility to try to prevent those bad things from happening.
It doesn’t matter about free market forces. Fossil fuel is poisoning our planet. If we just relied on the free market to give people what they want, which is cheap transportation, we would still be driving carbureted, gas powered cars without catalytic converters and burning leaded gas. And every city in the world would look like smog filled Los Angeles in the 1960’s, where everything looked like you were living in a sea of brown soup and visibility was less than 5 miles. We would also see extra millions of deaths per year due to lead poisoning, cancer, heart disease and lung disease from the smog. That is the whole reason that we have government, to protect people and make society safe, so that you can go and live your life without other people intentionally, or unintentionally killing you. Gas powered cars were fine in 1900 when the world population was 1.6 billion and only a small fraction of the population could afford cars. But now that the population is 8 billion and virtually everyone can afford a car, the air pollution is 10 times worse than it used to be. This madness has to stop.
@@CiaranMcHale Thank you.
Will still produce my own diesel and put foot to the peddle. Thank god we live in Africa.
but you have unlimited sunshine, so why not battery vehicles?
Canada must be lucky if no pollution blows their way from the US and other countries.🙄
Same goes for the rest of the world but these numbties can't see that
I hope Quebec allows Chinese imports without tariffs. Once people ride in one, and realize how much cheaper and better they are, widespread adoption in North America will skyrocket.
impossible with trudeau puppet
Yes hopefully Prime minister Clueless will be gone by then.
Québec is in Canada and the federal government as already put a 100% tariff. The Chinese government subsidise Chinese EV makers. They sell EVs at a loss. They are doing this to take control of the market. Do you think it would be a good thing if China had control of the EV market globally? They got super rich by selling cheap stuff. How much richer are they going to get by selling EVs? Do you think China is a harmless country like Australia or Canada?
China is simply advancing its policies to suit itself. Just like any other country should unless your politicians were sleeping on the job.
@@reclusedman8538 Are you saying that China is a harmful country compared to Australia or Canada? Pls provide evidence if you say so.
Air pollution caused by fuel vehicles is the biggest health culprit.
28% of global warming is due to ICE cars.
Nah, it’s heart disease
Well don’t you worry once gas cars are phased out it will be substituted by the growing space industry.
You must be on the young end and have no experience with 50 year old cars from the pre catalytic converter era. Modern cars don’t pollute by comparison to the classics.
Euro 6 delt with that problem
What you eat has a far bigger effect on health and yet the average doctor gets less than 20 hours in lectures on nutrition in their four years basic training. Carbs and sugar are the big killers not exhaust fumes.
Actually it doesn't change much since the market will make sure that at least 95% of all new cars are electric in 2030 anyway.
But it sends a strong signal to all those car companies that believe they will be selling a lot of ICE cars after 2035.
Maybe they should ask them self if they would by a cell phone now as their only mobile phone
I have an EV and I wouldn't have another one. That is what the market is telling them. I can buy a brand new £55k EV van in the UK for £25k with 5 miles on the clock because no-one wants them. That is the market and car makers and dealers are losing a fortune on each and every one.
@@jacquelinebrunder2384 ev vans are the biggest joke in a bag full of ev jokes...until they roll out something really stupid like an ev tracktor or something like that😜
If the ships transporting electric vehicles with vehicle to grid could start their voyage with fully charged vehicles, drain all that electricity to power the ship. How much fossil fuel would that save.
How do they get back?
@@MyJudgedread Fit sails on ships so that they will sail with wind. Another application of wind power without using turbines.
Do you think we'll be able to convince 100% of drivers to buy EVs in a country that deals with -30 degrees on a regular basis?
Norway: 90% of new cars are EV. Norway has a cold climate for part of the year - Dec-Jan -4C mean in Tromso and Oslo. -11C further north.
I have a Taiga electric snowmobile, it takes 10% of the battery to warm up but it works just fine.
More ridiculous comments from someone that knows nothing about EV's in the cold. They are perfectly fine. Ice engine are impacted by the cold too...
EVs are fine even in very cold temperatures as long as you plug them in when parked. Then they can be heated up from mains power and you set off fully charged. The government should require all workplaces and apartment buildings to fit chargers to facilitate this.
@@bjm23vancity92 yes I know. I live in Canada and I drive a Tesla. The question is can you expect to convince 100% of all drivers?
As a young boy I remember thinking how horrible it would be to breathe car fumes directly at the end of a car exhaust pipe. But like everyone else thought their dispersion in air made it of no concern. Even now when driving through high ground on either side of a motorway I think of the mass of polluted air we’re driving through. I believe the CO2 case is a scam but not the case for clean air. Animals need clean air too. Can you imagine what it must be like for a dog walking on the side of a road, at about the same height as most exhaust pipes?
bans are funny because the politicians always have to roll them back and there is nothing funnier than a humiliated politician.
The joke is actually on the people, who elected the politicians. Remember, the best democracy, money can buy!
electric is coming, and like in the early 1900 the game is in play, so get a horse.
Horse Powertrain Limited is a joint venture holding aimed at producing powertrains, including internal combustion engines (ICE) and hybrid systems. The venture holding was established in May 2024 and is equally owned by Renault and Geely.
So, Renault and Geely are, of course, the next horses !!
I honestly don't think any bans are going to be necessary.
The rate of technology advance is so fast that by 2030, maybe even earlier, those gas vehicles will just be like a steam was when it was replaced.
These cities that decide these things to go green are gonna be highly successful and getting people to move there because of how clean the air is going to be.
Look up what's happening in Bejing and Shanghai. Miraculous.
@@ChuckHolland-i4b
Sounds positive, whatever their progress so far...
LOL.Thanks for the laugh.
@@ChuckHolland-i4b The sky don't lie. Been there and not able to see a building 100 yards away. When covid was a thing and they locked everybody down the air did get better. It should clean up with less manufacturing and the ev's getting a license priority over gas.
Luigi knows what to do
I hope you're right about batteries and mileage by 2035 because here in the US the EV denial and resistance is strong its like everyone has gone insane. EVs have to become undeniably greater and cheaper than ICE ones. If you live elsewhere, you can't imagine the ICE mania that grips people here.
You started by saying China.
Also, Quebec isn't a country, it's a province in Canada.
Congratulations in your asded subscribers!
If it is Quebec alone in Canada , then it would be interesting to know how they control ICE vehicles that are not excluded from entering the city?
Canada has a nationwide mandate as well. Quebec is a province but there is Quebec City within the province. It is the province that has the ban. I am not sure why the province of Quebec also has its own ban on new ICE cars. It sounds redundant to me.
@yodaiam1000 Thank you, it did sound a bit odd.👍
2035 is rather late to introduce the ban. At the outside it should be 2030 or preferably earlier. We’ve had so many years to transition away from combustion vehicles already. There is no reason even now for any new combustion cars to be manufactured. Eventually few companies will be making the spare parts that are so crucial (and annoying to replace) for fossil fuel burning cars: radiators, lead-acid start batteries, gaskets, valves, numerous pumps and filters, fan belts, exhausts, transmissions etc. Recent figures show gas stations are closing at an increasing and many are being replaced by charging stations. There will be a problem finding fuel stations at some point in the near future as the hydrocarbon fuel industry begins to decline
Ok here’s a simple question which is the elephant in the room…
How on earth are they going to generate enough electricity to power the millions of EVs as well as everything else needing electricity? - like houses etc.
Governments haven’t invested in charging networks or built additional power stations to generate the power needed.
This whole thing is nuts.
Hydro. Quebec produces a lot of hydroelectric power and exports a lot of it.
Heard of Home Solar? Heard of the concept of Synergy?
I have a 10 kW system installed on my roof, and over a 12-month period, I produce more electricity than I consume.
As a result, I save a significant amount on my electricity bill.
The electric vehicle (EV) revolution is closely linked with the solar photovoltaic (PV) revolution.
This relationship is known as synergy.
Quebec and Newfoundland have just announced a deal to build additional facilities for Churchill Falls. Perhaps you could fact check before you make demonstrably incorrect statements.
Power generation is decentralising. The construction of solar and wind farms and battery storage is also democratising the energy sector. Many, many people are installing solar panels and wall boxes for home charging. Those who don’t are charging at off peak rates.
Not nuts at all
Solar power on the roof , battery in the garage
Hydro, wind, geothermal, solar power stations
It’s been proven to work, without coal power backup
Ever wondered why people need all these incentives to buy EV's?
Free parking, free charging, no road tax, free lanes, dotations, etc?
Yeah, i think i know why🤭
We are smart!
Wow! An actual unicorn channel.
Ice should be out of production by then. Don't agree to ban them, just gives idiots another reason to give voice.
My 12 year old Toyota should last until 2035.
If you leave it parked in your driveway!🤣
Battery swap is a good idea for trucks
In London there is a fire caused by an e-bike battery being recharged every 48 hours. I like the idea of zero emission cars ... but having them parked in underground carparks with people sleeping or working above them worries me. Having them on cross channel ferries ....ditto. Is this technology ready for mass use just yet.
Yes it is. Electric car fires are very rare.
Ford has stated that they are losing about $35,000 for every EV that it produces.
Legacy manufacturers have relied on their reputation way past the sell-by date, at the same time ignoring the damage being done by yesterday’s technology and the new players now arriving.
@@frankblangeard8865 But they make it upon volume.
I remember back in 1992 California mandated that by the year 2000 10% of all vehicles sold had to be electric. How did that work out? 😂😂😂
Québec is Canada’s second biggest province
While I fully support EVs I don’t currently see 100% EVs within the next 10years. The hardest to replace in terms of performance is the twin cab 4wd Ute. They have the combination of 5 passengers, payload capacity and tow capacity. The tow capacity issue you highlighted yourself with your review of the lightship L1. While some twin cab 4wd hybrid utes are out they lack the tow / payload capacity. I know the hype cycle is at play in the media and I really hope I’m wrong and you’re right. As for your bog standard on road passenger sedan, wagon, hatch or van easy 100% EV by 2035.
I love it when people boldly claim by 20xx we will have this, and these other things will do so and so. Even if all these technologies do happen against all odds, you then run up against a raft of new problems. So, you will have the problem of building more power generation for the vastly increased EV fleet. Then you will need a massive push for charging stations which will require a massive investment in cable infrastructure which itself will put enormous demand pressure on the supply and hence price of copper. Then on the other side of the equation you will need to mine to an enormous extent to provide the materials for EV batteries that will increase exponentially in number and this will occur in the poorest and most vulnerable countries with devastating effect on the environment and on the health and well being of the people that have to work and live near these abominations. Then you have the problem of recycling millions of tons of toxic battery waste which nobody has produced a solution for. By 2035 all that will happen is the governments of these countries will quietly put the deadline back to 2045 if they don't abandon it entirely. For if these EVs will be so fantastic that you would have to be "brain dead" to even consider buying an ICE, why the need for compulsion, hmm? Answer me that mr Viking.
The US gets 60% of its crude from Canada. Are those workers getting better paying jobs somehow?
Burning crude oil is a waste of a valuable resource.
There are literally zillions of products which are produced from crude oil.
Products that, handled correctly over their lifetime, have zero negative effects on the environment.
Plastics for instance
@@Adscam I know you meant is as sarcasm, but seriously, if plastics is a problem, scientific solutions and R&D should be invested to solve the problem.
EMP is your best friend.
I think most people would readily agree to buying an electric vehicle unfortunately governments keep putting levies on imports that make them expensive! So unless you live in a country that manufactures ev,s it’s very costly to change at the moment. I personally would buy an ev now but I live in Finland and cars here are extremely expensive it doesn’t matter if they are ice or ev the cost is high compared to other countries. I just wish the governments would give tax breaks but unfortunately they know they will loose too much revenue on fuel sales.
It’s all down to tax, and money talks not the environment!.
Are you going to do a video about the container explosion in Florida caused by a flood-damaged Tesla, and the recall of almost 700,000 Teslas due to faulty TPMS warnings?
Funny 2 jerks never care even millions of gasoline car recalled and dozens of oil factory explosion happens all these years but they only care about Tesla recall and Florida explosion
You mean this one? ua-cam.com/video/ksWGI3hdgwY/v-deo.html&pp=ygUZYmVuIHN1bGxpbnMgZmxvcmlkYSB0ZXNsYQ%3D%3D
Nahhh he is an EVangelist narcissist, just look at him, spends more time on his beard than actual research.
You are worried about tire pressure sensors? How about the honda and ford recalls for potential engine fires?
@0:01 *Québec* is a province as well as a city. And *Canada* second largest city is *Montréal.*
Anyway, this merely says that they are planning to stop by 2035. This is an oxymoron of _old news._
Why is it an oxymoron?
When Trudeau is booted out in the near future, the ICE ban will disappear almost instantly. I'm a fan of EV, but not forcing them on people who don't want them. All the research in the world is making EVs better. Let them be sold on their own merits.
ICE ban will not disappear even when Trudeau is out. Canadians want Climate action even if the Poilievre gang wins the election & the axe the tax movement will fizzle when people realize that 8 out of 10 people in Canada benefit from the Carbon Tax check we receive every 3 months!
Quebec is a province, not a city. I also heard a reference to China registrations before Quebec was mentioned.
It's a common mistake people from the country of Sydney make...
The capital of the province of Québec is Québec city.
@ yes I know. But the reference was to a provincial jurisdiction and not a municipal jurisdiction. So it must be the province of Quebec and not Quebec City which has banned the sale of diesel or pure ICE cars by 2035.
Better have a good bike then.
I enjoy your show and I happily would buy an EV, problem is I live in the country and there’s bugger roll places to charge. And I have no way of charging an EV here even if I wanted to. And I don’t want a lithium vehicle at this time. Elsewise I like them
There will be lots of changes to infrastructure in 10 years.
Hello Chemistry is the key for battery innovation. Chemistry is the reason a battery can deliver electricity. I must the question our ability to store ever increasing amounts of power since chemistry is the issue. As far as Diesel goes, as fuel, there is nothing that stores, transports and delivers energy like gasoline and diesel. Regards
Well, that would kill Class B RV sales, as they might have no resale value in 10 years. Along with some of the Class C. And people might stop buying new cars for a couple of years, waiting to see what comes out. Or switch to leasing, which should become more expensive as residual values plummet.
The Canada ban allows PHEV partly because of this reason. You could buy the PHEV outside of Quebec and bring it in. It could also be that the battery tech improves enough that it wouldn't make too much of a difference.
Do you receive money from EV companies? Just wondering how you plan on recycling those millions of batteries? Any plan to stop thermal battery run aways in public spaces? Any plan to keep first responders safe at an EV collision site? Any plan to keep kids safe when their school bus self ignites? oh, and where is the electricity going to come from to recharge theses EV's ... monkey dust, chicken farts ...Hmm, coal fired powerplants?
What a crock of you no what!
Right now there is no consideration for the harm to human health that fossil fuels and ICE vehicles do and in America, the MAGA right has no consideration for the harm to the environment either and that will kill far more people and animals in the long run. All Fossil fuel companies should be nationalized and profits clawed back for damages.
MAGA does not care? Why does Elon Musk, the individual who has done more than any other to lead the charge to EVs, support MAGA?
Get out of your lefty echo chamber and engage your brain!
I wonder how the range is going to be effected by cold and the length of journeys which is emense . The lack of infrastructure will cripple the long journeys. Until you have the 1000 km range of a truck pulling a trailer. In cities the electric vehicles are great and can be the best solution. Totally agree with that. But hybrid is a better solution for long journeys. The other problem is where are you going to get the electricity from? Mostly from oil gas and coal , so electric vehicles are not clean by any means. The only way they are clean is they don't polute locally this is just how it is. I am not even fracturing the amount of pollution from raw materials to finished vehicles.
Hydrogen is an alternative but i think you are right it is a bad fuel for many reasons and extremely dangerous so happy to see it off the roads. I think there is feeling of running before walking here. I think in the next 30 years there's going to be a great shift to mostly EVs but this false alarm and bold statements about doing it 5 years or even 10 years is far too artificial targets for no real reason. You are not going to see a sudden drop in pollution in that time frame. It will take nearly as long as it took to alter it. China is a major problem with coal powered industry. It agrees to international understandings but it doesn't seem to walk the walk. But i will say they are very keen to get the major cities all electric as pollution is staggering in some of them. But they still produce most electrical power by fossil fuels at the moment.
EVs have been doing fine for 10+ years in Norway.
Ref: hydrogen. here in the UK, JCB are still pushing ahead with hydrogen.... bad decision and one they don't seem to want to change course.
All (except Chinese) car companies are going bust because of this mad Net Zero WEF mandate. It's going to be goodbye to motoring for most.
Good idea come to the top without government laws and intervention. 🤔
Who are you referring to as the 'top'?
@@adamiskandar5107 "top of the pile".... what not who. If EVs are so great there would be no need to ban normal cars.
Imagine how expensive petrol will become when most cars are electric and little demand for fossil fuels.
If there is more supply due to less demand prices will go down, not up.
@@darylbrice Wouldn't the supply go down if the demand goes down? With low economies of scale, production cost and hence prices should go up, wouldn't it?
@@adamiskandar5107the price of a barrel crude oil might drop, but the price at the pump will go higher and higher…
Governments want to get rid of getting extorted by oil producing countries. Thus they raise the tax on it constantly.
We now pay 2.00 - 2.50 per litre. That will double or even worse.
Imagine how cheap petrol would be if governments stop taxing it.
The sooner, the better, I think.
For nordic countries like Canada, it seems foolish to hope for technological change to meet a government mandated fuel mandate. It was minus 20 in western Canada for a week and unless you’re lucky to have covered parking with in-house charging, outdoor charging is goofy right now. Does anyone think the power grid will accommodate charging for all in a decade? Municipal governments can’t handle homelessness, immigration issues like housing and take 5 years to do a simple bridge. These mandates are great for rich people. Poor people buy used cars for cheap. Is there such a thing as a cheap used EV that doesn’t have a potential battery replacement issue or major repair lurking?
The author only talks about EV cars. He doesn't know that Quebec province has a whole industry producing power plants for small atv, watercraft and personal planes. I think the ban is fair as they don't touch the heavy duty industry either.
how does Quebec intend to pay for its road maintenance
Taxes
Let the free market decide what people want - EV vs ICE, rather than government mandates
You don’t think CO2 emissions should be decreased as fast as possible?
Ice vehicles cause too much pollution. They should be banned. It's a big concession to let people drive the ones they already have.
@@adrianthoroughgood1191 Well said.
Even motorcycles should be able to be electric by 2035. Currently energy density isn’t high enough for non-commuter bikes, but that will change.
Motorbikes are already electric, you can buy them already.
Stealth bikes are too easily hit by cars to even consider running silent
I just left China and the electric scooters are everywhere. Rentals too. You have to be very careful walking because they are silent. I will take the clean air over the risk any day.
@@rassabossa4554 China have their own traffic regulations and the people there are used to it. For foreigners whose countries have a different system, they will see it as somewhat haphazard, like a bit dangerous. I was there for about a week and I do feel their system is a bit dangerous, but in that 1 week, I had not witness an accident. It was like a miracle, amazing.
@ I feel the same. It was very chaotic but somehow it works. I never saw any road rage. I did see one accident that happened about one mile an hour. A car was trying to slip around a big truck that was stopped. The driver of the truck would not have been able to see the car trying to squeeze by him. It was completely in his blind spot. The truck started moving forward and I heard a crunch….wasn’t sure what it was…we were all stopped at a light and I was in a taxi a few feet away. Clearly the car’s fault trying to squeeze in from the right. They just got out and started taking pictures, no yelling or name calling.
The market should drive (no pun intended) the car industry. Government should stay out of businesses. A free market is moraly and economically superior to socialism.
Plus it wastes a massive amount of water. Imagine every car dripping water. It would also make the road surfaces wet. it could even cause climate change, as the water would not get absorbed and simply evaporate into the atmosphere. A typical hydrogen car emits about 0.05-0.1 litres of water per kilometre. Scaling this up globally could mean billions of litres of water released daily into the environment. Widespread use of hydrogen vehicles could lead to persistently wet roads in high-traffic areas, potentially increasing wear and tear or hazards like slipperiness and ice formation in cold regions. Water vapor is a greenhouse gas, albeit weaker than CO₂. A massive shift to hydrogen vehicles could marginally increase atmospheric moisture, which might amplify warming effects in specific microclimates.
"Harvard University, in collaboration with the University of Birmingham, the University of Leicester and University College London, found that more than 8 million people died in 2018 from fossil fuel pollution, significantly higher than previous research suggested-meaning that air pollution from burning fossil fuels like coal and diesel was responsible for about 1 in 5 deaths worldwide."
Which countries were the deaths. London was a Diesel nightmare in the 1990's. But they cleaned up the European air and left poorer nations to fend for themselves. Out of sight, out of mind.
Also... Fossil fuel exhaust produces nitrogen that accumulates along road sides and wild areas. This has caused the loss of many wild flowers that need a low fertility soil to survive... See Bigger university
It’s not about range, it’s about every affordable EV is butt ugly 🙄
Many motorcycle riders love the sound their bikes make and the thunderous feel. An electrical bike can't give them that visceral feeling. For them, "Nothing beets a Harley".
There will always be a market for enthusiast. Unfortunately for them, it will become expensive to maintain their hobby in the future.
Hah, as a vroom loving motorcyclist, the last thing I'd want is a Harley
"Nothing" except most other motorbikes.
Our new American muscle cars have noise generators that mimic the sound of combustion engines. We can do the same for Harley's. And the customer can forgo the expense of adding an after market exhaust system to make those cool sounds. But I suspect without laws outlawing ICE, we will see (and hear) them on the road still for the next 75 years. Enjoy!
Harley Davidson makes the LiveWire an electric bike.
I disagree with banning them.
Additionally, it is kind of a pointless virtue signaling move. Nobody in their right mind is going to buy a gas car in 2035 that cost 3x the price of a comparable EV.
I can’t happen soon enough!
Wake me when the gurus tell us how they're going to dispose of the used up toxic batteries......... the whole thing is nuts!
Wake Up! they are reused for grid storage and then recycled. What do they do with burned gas? Where is all that toxic material and CO2 dumped? The ICE car thing is nuts!
100% of batteries are eventually recycled, nothing goes to landfill.
Absolutely pathetic that the only way governments can lift EV sales is by banning the preferred competition.
I loathe government interference in relation to EV mandates. They are not a solution to our needs.
We have to adopt Clean Energy vehicles. Our health is at risk from air pollution caused by burning oil & gas & coal. That is why a good Government will mandate this for the future of our children, unless you don't give a hoot about the future, meaning you are a lost cause.
Ice car manufacturing should be banned now. It's pathetic that governments have been so weak as to allow it to carry on for another 10 years.
Ice car manufacturing should be banned now. It's pathetic that governments have been so wk as to allow it to carry on for another 10 years.
The consumer will push gas cars off the ledge well before 2035. Just from pure economics. If a family of 4 can save 2 to 4k per years on fuel and maintenance, its a no brainer. In fact, once robo taxi prices get low enough, many wont even bother having a car.
You mean for middle class people in Western cities, only. The rest of the planet are not buying EV's at all. I live in Mexico the past 4yrs, I've seen 2 Teslas in 4yrs.
This video is not going to age well. Quebec will be forced to push back their 2035 ban. This will cause a massive ageing of the vehicle fleet, because people will hang onto their petrol and diesel vehicles. The fact that emergency vehicles are exempted tells you everything you need to know. If you want your vehicle to work in an emergency, you want a petrol or diesel car. You absolutely will be stranded by your EV if the power goes out in a storm. Unless you have a petrol or diesel generator of course. But what's the point of that? Just drive a petrol or diesel car, AND have a petrol/diesel generator for power backup for your home.
Why not have a backup generator for your home and your car?
We need to make billions of ICE cars before these crazy rules destroy everything.
ICE cars have been great for the climate in northern Europe as the winters are getting milder and summers longer and hotter. Lets all help to increase global warming.
Wow, a genius!
You hear this argument a lot. Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has used it. Donald Trump has used it. The idea is that more people die in cold weather than in heat waves.
However it ignores the fact that even if in some regions like northern Europe, people temporarily experience milder winters, the overall consequences of global warming throughout the rest of the world will be overwhelmingly negative.
These will include increased frequency of heatwaves, droughts, and floods, etc, which will harm agriculture, infrastructure, habitable living zones and human health. Rising sea levels will also displace large populations of people. Long-term climate stability will collectively benefit everyone in the world including northern Europe.
Clinging to outdated ICE technology also risks falling behind in a rapidly evolving global economy which will be transitioning to sustainable energy and EV manufacturing. This in turn will create new jobs and will increase opportunities for technological advancements and further economic growth.
I am sure there are other ways of increasing global warming. If EVs are cheaper than ICE cars, would it still make sense to promote ICE cars? You don't believe in Capitalism, do you?
... and do they have the infrastructure to support an electric economy? And how much will such an economy cost" Well, we already know that - all we have to do is look at what has happened in Germany and is in process in Britain... Ruin our economies which pay for research and implementation - by passing legislation that doesn't take that into account. Its not about the EV cars its about the cost and difficulties of putting the infrastructure and power generation in place. ... and the cost of having politicians who pay no price for the policies they legislate.
infrastructure yes. economy no.
Well UK is a third world country now so it's pretty obvious they won't be able to keep up with an advanced nation like China or even Thailand. As to Germany, they cut themselves off from cheap Russia gas on orders from Biden -- and they're in a HELL of a mess. Has little to do with EVs though.... almost all their industries are having problems with energy costs the last couple of years.
Or heaven forbid a Carrington type event, there is an increase in sun spot activity, the whole electric grid could fail in minutes.
@@c-ptsd46 True - can we assume that the lines and circuits have been "hardened" - since such protections will cost more money I suspect not...
@@hariseldon3786the amount of electricity needed to power 100% electric cars in the UK is smaller than the amount the total electricity demand has fallen since 2003. It's just not the problem people think it is. We need to upgrade some cabling to get the electricity from the different places it's now being generated to where it's needed, and some of the distribution network needs improvement.
Pointless!!! Why does any government need to interfere with something that is happening on its own. So few people will want gas powered cars when they will cost more to produce due to lack of volume. Electric cost to produce is coming down rapidly. So few people will want to buy on those terms, why shouldn't they be able to buy if the manufacturers can still produce?
If they don't ban, how about making them pay for the pollution cost to society?
@adamiskandar5107 they pay now in carbo credits. Tesla makes billions every year from their lame compediters. Also forcing lame legacy auto out. The government doesn't need to have their hand in this anymore. Stupid legacy already f'd around and found out. At this point, they're only being kicked while they're down.
2035 ? That is so far out it's for show.
It is easier to control pollution with scrubbers at the 12 exhaust stacks of our local power plant than it is to control the pollution from 10M individual cars in this region.
Gonna cost a lot for gas there.
Why not do both!
@@ChuckHolland-i4b Because it costs to much. We can reduce pollution by burning coal and not gasoline art the same time reduce the amount of cars on the road (robo-taxi's). We can eliminate coal by using batteries and solar power.
I will definitely NOT buy an EV before 2035 because most of EV problems that we face today may be sorted out by the end of 2035. If the horrible EV problems that we have to deal with now is not ironed out by 2035, then I will simply drive my latest ICE car for as long as possible after 2035. There is no point in buying EV's before 2035.
What problem are you talking about?
Quebec better start importing Chinese and EU EVs since the US OEMs won't be able to make enough. Possibly Tesla's robo-taxi will take up a lot of the slack? However with Justin Trudeau about to be ousted and Trump coming into office, I kind of doubt these bans will stay in place.
What will win the day is cost and convenience. If EVs become much cheaper than ICE vehicles and charging infrastructure more ubiquitous, the dominoes will fall with or without bans.
Viking has convinced me to NOT buy an EV, at least not right now. He makes the case that in just a couple of years batteries will be twice as energy dense as what I could get now, the range will much better, and the price of an EV in a couple of years will be dramatically lower than it is now. If he is right it makes no sense to buy now, wait a couple of years.
Would you buy now if it's proven that it's cheaper in terms of purchase cost plus maintenance compared to an ICE vehicle?, and also the fact that it contributes to cleaner air in the city you live in? Being cheaper in ten years is a bonus.
@ I agree with all your assumptions, cheaper, better for environment. I am just going to wait for two or three years and get a much better EV at a much lower price than I can get today. I am 70 and me next car will probably be my last car.
@@adamiskandar5107 Everybody would. But the depreciation on electrics is poor and as he says, if the tech keeps ramping up EV's will have the resale curve of smartphones.