According to Automotive News, a September survey published by the think tank Clean Energy Canada showed that 48 percent of respondents want an EV as their next car. And now that Canada will be allowing some Chinese EVs into the market, close to half of those potential customers are willing to wait for them.

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    7 days ago

    Yeah we want $15k electric cars. It’ll be rad. Fuck amerikkkan cars. Close the border, let it rot.

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      7 days ago

      Exactly this. Not dropping 70K for an electric vehicle that was designed to crap out after 5 years.

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      6 days ago

      I was saying that this morning about that stupid ‘flying’ Tesla thing. I don’t want cars that can jump 30 feet in the air, people are dumb enough on the ground.

      A much better presentation would be to have an electric car at the presentation, then a person gets in it and drives to the store and comes back, and then a caption says “This costs $15k”.

      Or, have a Tesla jump 30 feet in the air and then land on Elon Musk lol, I’d accept that

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      6 days ago

      The majority of the Chinese import permits went to Chinese-produced Teslas.

      Nobody’s getting 15k EVs in Canada.