I'm too much of a tight ass to ignore this possibility which is why I'm waiting and hoping some federal direction will at least be provided so people can make good decisions. You shouldn't have to be taking a gamble...just lay out the rules and apply them fairly and people will adjust and react accordingly. Look at all the time and energy people have wasted over the EHVIP bungling. Ridiculous.
All you folks are aware that
most provinces have zero incentives right?
If the great shirtless wonder had any interest in supporting EV's they could have simply removed the Federal 5% HST on them a very long time ago (matching many other countries), which would have supported the whole country, not just Upper Canada. He is as green as he is committed to election reform... if it doesn't ensure the extension of his dynasty, not interested.
The feds had a "green car initiative" years ago, with a mirrored program to extra tax guzzlers, they scratched the rebate and kept the extra taxes on the guzzlers, they could have put that full program back.
They used to have a program for upgrading houses to improve energy efficiency, that could have been re-instated.
The only way there's going to be a Fed rebate will be as a flat out election seat buying initiative, in which case it will be a promise to be fulfilled after the 2019 election.
Tesla giving a bonus to you because you elected an idiot?
The rest of the country has suffered with idiots for years yet nobody out here is saying we should be treated specially.
Tesla has to make money, they need all the cash they can get from each of you. When you got the rebate, they still got the cash.
There is actual cost associated with EAP and FSD, giving that up for free will cost them in the end. As soon as the first one of you go crying to the Service Center about one of those things having an issue and they need to put a tech in your car for a couple of hours to diagnose whether it's the cameras or the MCU or software. As soon as someone plows off a road using one of those features and their phone rings with the Lawyers of the family of the deceased. You think their liability insurance rates aren't calculated based on the number of FSD and EAP cars they have on the road? When you buy a new personal plane the manufacturer pays an enormous amount of the purchase price to an insurance company to cover them against you being an idiot and flying into the ground, you think Tesla isn't doing the same with each EAP and FSD payment? Stop asking for "no cost" freebies, they aren't "no cost".
Tesla isn't responsible, the voters of Ontario are directly responsible for electing a politician who is doing exactly what he said he'd do.
Orderly wind down, as I said in a previous post, you can throw people off a cliff in an orderly manner. It's all in the interpretation. Is it unfair, probably, but the government has complete right to do things that are unfair whenever they want to, they just pass legislation. They do it all the time.
While I'm very sad to see the major economy of the country headed for a death spiral with an open for pollution sign hanging on the door and sad to see that the lovely yellow haze I used to look at every summer day hanging over the Gardiner won't be going away any time soon... It's what you asked for when you and or your fellow citizens voted. The Feds and their spineless leader will not be riding in on their great white stallions to save you from yourselves. When the Carbon Tax is imposed, then challenged in court, then collected, the Feds aren't about to cherry pick what to do with it, they will send a cheque to Douggie and he'll get to spend it how he wants, or they'd face yet another fight, one they'd lose.
