same data headline: 'Almost 50% of Canadians say they will consider buying an electric vehicle as their next car'

Unsaid part of headline: "Most Canadians can't afford a new car, and many that can don't own a house and have nowhere to charge".

Electric cars, as they currently are, are a rich person's solution to climate change.

I live car free, fix the fucking transit!

The underlying plot of this article is rather obnoxious. This Smith guy's 2016 Hyundai hybrid broke and the dealer gave him a $15k quote to fix it, which was then resolved by Hyundai corporate. The headline statement is one small paragraph, and irrelevant to this random story.

To discuss the headline, though, I think it all stems from misinformation more than anything. I have an EV in the charging desert of north east Saskatchewan. It's a fantastic car and I wouldn't hesitate to buy one again. Yes, you do have to plan ahead a bit if you're going longer distances, but the slight inconvenience is well worth the savings in fuel. Winter range can be reduced by around 50% at -30, but again, you plan around that. ICE vehicles don't perform well at those temperatures either.

Even then, the trips the vast majority of people make are well within typical EV ranges and there are often several charging option wherever the vehicle is parked.

Because we’ll have proper rail infrastructure then right?

Because we’ll have proper rail infrastructure then right?

I've had one for five years, and 176000km, and it is one of the best decisions I've ever made, especially for a large purchase. I'll honestly never go back to gas as long as electric cars are available to buy.

I wanted to go electric, but I live in apartments and rent, and it's hard enough to get property management companies to fix the furnace.

My next car will 100% be an EV, even living in Alberta, it will be an EV.

Because they are >$60,000 toys! The Lightning pickup weighs 3 FUCKING TONS it has a 5.5" box and seats 5 people!?! That's just a minivan but worse.

If something like this actually comes on the market and doesn't stay speculative vaporware I will buy one without a second thought. It's small, has a 6 foot bed, weighs under 2 tons and a 400km range (which is WAY more than you need if you charge every night). Not as efficient as a commuter car but still better than any combustion vehicle AND it can carry all the groceries, beer crates and top soil that I need.

We've been trying to go EV for 20 years. The first obstacle was lack of workspace to convert our little Japanese mini-truck (apartment dwellers).

The next obstacle was cost. We moved to where we had workspace, but then we couldn't afford either the conversion or an equivalently price used Leaf. It's also still a charging desert, with the nearest charger 150 km away and it's not even on the way to anywhere we go often enough to matter.

Then time became an obstacle. Our current vehicles will likely see us to an age where we have to stop driving. Does it make sense to live several years of our retirement as paupers to pay for a decent used EV? We've decided that it doesn't. For our current driving patterns, getting 100km of winter range would cover 50-70 percent of our driving. 50km of winter range would cut that to 20-30 percent. I keep my eye out for something under CA$10k, but haven't seen anything yet.

I just bought my next car: An electric cargo bike.

I want a car, not a subscription.

Admittedly, many internal combustion vehicles have subscriptions, too, but the EV industry is so much worse for this.

I’m waiting to see all the real world reviews for Aptera