Even the used ones are still pricey. I'd get a 10 year old Tesla Model S for $25k before I'd spend $35k on a used Bolt.
AnotherDirtyAnglo
joined 2 years ago
Yeah, I had to cut Mom off long before her move... The constant stream of agitated nonsense was corrosive to my mental health. I kept lying awake at night, trying to figure out how to battle the onslaught of total bullshit from Facebook and the far-far-right blogs that her boyfriend kept feeding her... In the end I figured that I couldn't defend against the entire internet and some dickhead who lived with her 24x7x365, so I walked away.
There's only two scenarios I can envision -- I get the call that she's been hospitalized and to come get her, or I somehow find out she's died. I'm not sure how I'll deal with either, but I'll know that she did it to herself by believing the bullshit over her last living relative.
Doesn't matter unless they modernize the building codes -- which includes things like heat pumps / air exchangers / radon remediation / greywater systems... All things that make a house better, but also cost more money -- adding to the affordability crisis.
Kids nowadays are so fucked.
People don't care about it until they get bitten. Then they act all outraged and make outrageous demands for compensation.
Pick up a 10 year old Tesla -- they're cheap and they have lots of battery life for short commutes.
Oh yeah, my mother was pushed down the internet conspiracy theory rabbit hole by her idiot boyfriend over the course of the pandemic. Their latest dumbass move to was to relocate to Alberta because the political climate more closely aligned with their beliefs. Given that my mother is chronically ill, and it had taken years for her to find good specialists, I will not be surprised when I get the call that she's died early because her disease isn't being properly managed.
That's why there needs to be aggressive rebates and incentives. It's the only way the market gets built. The dumbest part of this whole thing is how easy it would be to get it right.
- Increase gas taxes quarterly, just a fraction of a percent.
- Gas taxes go towards rebate programs, and to incentiveize manufacturers to manufacture locally.
- Carbon taxes to go public transit - increasing the quantity and quality of service while reducing the end user costs to drive demand.
- The more people who use new and improved public transit rather than buying cars to commute, the closer we get to climeate goals.
- The more people who convert to EVs, the closer the country gets to climate goals.
- Repeat this process so that every year, it gets more and more expensive to operate a vehicle that kills the planet, and it gets cheaper and cheaper to get where you need to be with green tech.
About fucking time, assholes. Maybe the CBC should stop posting there.
instead of anything the size of a Honda civic
Chevy Bolt. But they're over $50k CAD before rebates. Fuck that.
Even 'low' gas prices can't compete. If I charge on a street charger from 0%, it costs about $16 for 550km of range. It's free at the office. I bought mine when free unlimited fast charging was offered. I've put nearly 60k kms on the vehicle, and I've paid less than $200 for 'fuel' over the last 4 years.
I don't have a parking spot at home, but my office installed four car chargers, and there were already 120V sockets in every second parking stall. Unlimited charging is included in the parking fee, and they don't care if you plug into the 120V socket. I've left my car there when I was on vacation, and not a peep from them.
I suspect it would result in permanent minorities, and the growth of smaller, more local parties. I'm no political scientist, but as far as I can tell, formalized political parties are just magnets for corruption and consolidation of power that's for sale to anyone with a fistfull of disposable cash.