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Originally Posted by Hondaracer
Now you limit competition and drive up prices of the EV’s available through tariffs in an attempt to save face or whatever this is? Or in the veil of saving Canadian jobs which is obviously BS
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Except that the impact on the Canadian auto manufacturing sector is not BS though. We have Ford, GM, Toyota, Honda, and Stellantis building cars in Canada. And then beyond that, there is the full downstream industries and suppliers that support these manufacturers. Google pegs the auto manufacturing sector to account for $11.6B / 1.5% of Ontario's GDP. So if the sector gets decimated, a LOT of people are going to have a very difficult time, and no gov would want to deal with that if it can be avoided.
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None of these traditional North American auto manufacturers who currently have a corner on the EV market are ever going to produce an affordable EV for the masses.
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That may or may not be true. But with a looming deadline not that far away in the future -- 2035 for Canada and California, I think? -- it is up to the manufacturers to see how they can pivot, or risk going out of business.
For the time being, the affordable EV segment is kind of being served by the used EV market. Potentially, federal governments can mandate manufacturers to continue providing parts and service support of existing EVS for a longer duration -- I believe the current rules for mandatory parts support only goes up to 10 years.