Will the CAQ abolish rebates un Québec?

[agloutney]

Francois Legault seemed to dodge the question during the leaders debate. Should we worry about losing the $8000 incentive in Québec like they did in Ontario? I was waiting for SR Model 3 to be available but now I’m not sure if it’s worth risking the rebate. I’m cautiously waiting to see where the CAQ I’d going with this...for now.

...and I can’t edit the typo in the title sorry!

 

[MTL_HABS1909]

I don’t trust the CAQ about anything related to the environment. It seemed like the last thing Legault cared about in all the debates. Can’t belive we have our version of Trump in power....

 

[RiverBrick]

The CAQ deputy in St-Jerome is horribly misinformed about EVs and a large portion of his salary in his former job at the IEDM was paid by the oil industry.

However, the new CAQ deputy in Orford is not only a Tesla owner, but also a Supercharger host. (He's the real-estate developer at the site in Magog).

 

[agloutney]

Yeah, it’s going to be a long four years. I was hoping for at least a minority government so he can’t screw things up too much on the environmental front but I guess he’ll have free reign.
Maybe he’ll redeem himself with buck a beer.

That’s good news about the Orford députée.

 

[adaptabl]

We were hopping for the same thing in Ontario. That didn't work out too well for us. Hope your results are better.

 

[5_+JqckQttqck]

Another populist government

 

[lukex4]

Just read this news yesterday (in French):
Le programme «Roulez Électrique» presque à sec

I'm a day 1 reservation holder (spent the night at the SC in Montréal..) and I was waiting for SR but now I'm not so sure anymore... But even if I place my order right now and it takes 3 month to get the car, I might not even get any rebate at all... This situation is really not ideal

 

[5_+JqckQttqck]

Just read this news yesterday (in French):
Le programme «Roulez Électrique» presque à sec

I'm a day 1 reservation holder (spent the night at the SC in Montréal..) and I was waiting for SR but now I'm not so sure anymore... But even if I place my order right now and it takes 3 month to get the car, I might not even get any rebate at all... This situation is really not ideal

What does the article/post say? They're removing the incentives? Very sad if this is the case after what happened in Ontario. Stepping back to 1990s to eliminate EVs again.

 

[lukex4]

What does the article/post say? They're removing the incentives? Very sad if this is the case after what happened in Ontario. Stepping back to 1990s to eliminate EVs again.

They aren't removing the incentive directly but the fund for the program will be depleted in December or January 2019 if nothing is done. I sure hope someone in the government wakes up and fix this!

 

[adaptabl]

Just read this news yesterday (in French):
Le programme «Roulez Électrique» presque à sec

I'm a day 1 reservation holder (spent the night at the SC in Montréal..) and I was waiting for SR but now I'm not so sure anymore... But even if I place my order right now and it takes 3 month to get the car, I might not even get any rebate at all... This situation is really not ideal

There does not seem to be any wait right now. You should have a car very quickly if you order now.

 

[RiverBrick]

There does not seem to be any wait right now. You should have a car very quickly if you order now.

The wait is long for awd vehicles. I know people in Quebec who ordered in late June and are still waiting.

 

[RiverBrick]

Another populist government

Yeah, and they have 100% of the power thanks to the support of a whopping 25% of eligible voters.

33% did not vote
25% CAQ
16% PLQ
11% PQ
10% QS
5% Other

 

[MarcoRP]

Maybe instead of EVs, Legault will incentivize Air Transat flights

 

[adaptabl]

EV rebates are not popular with the general public. The perception is they go to the rich who can afford expensive EV's. They should at least be capped at maximum $50,000.00 EV's

 

[MarcoRP]

EV rebates are not popular with the general public. The perception is they go to the rich who can afford expensive EV's. They should at least be capped at maximum $50,000.00 EV's

Which is what they’re doing. I don’t think there are any more rebate on Model S and Model Xs

 

[adaptabl]

Which is what they’re doing. I don’t think there are any more rebate on Model S and Model Xs

They are still giving $3,000.00 on $100,000.00 plus cars.

 

[5_+JqckQttqck]

Hey hold on now. Dollarize the amount of CO2 saved by any EV and the rebates look like chump change. One less chronic asthma sufferer saves our health care system tens of thousands in their life time (2.1 Billion annual cost to Canadian system spent on asthma)

https://www.asthma.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Asthma-Facts-and-Stats.pdf

But of course, Harper put an end to that with funding cuts to our sciences nation wide. Anyone willing to pay tax on $100,000 vehicle - good for them for achieving financial success and purchasing what they want.

Twelve more years to turn things around and all corners of the world want to go back to 1960's with double the world population. You can't have non-stop linear growth using decades old technology without significant systemic imbalances. Heatwaves, droughts, water shortages while that water is picked up by epic storms at other parts of the world. The *sugar* storm is here, we should be doing everything in our power to mitigate the damage to the climate system while bracing for the worse.

 

[RiverBrick]

EV rebates are not popular with the general public. The perception is they go to the rich who can afford expensive EV's. They should at least be capped at maximum $50,000.00 EV's

Policy should be based on facts, not on perception.

Quebec is the province with the lowest percentage of climate-change deniers, so your perception of what the public perception is there may be wrong as well.

 

[adaptabl]

Policy should be based on facts, not on perception.

Quebec is the province with the lowest percentage of climate-change deniers, so your perception of what the public perception is there may be wrong as well.

Maybe but I suspect the issue is giving tax dollars to the rich. I highly doubt that is popular anywhere. Perception or not.

Even in Ontario the Liberals had to deal with the problem of public concerns about rebates on expensive cars and had to set a cap.

 

[phigment]

adaptable is done trolling the Ontario EV incentive thread and has now moved on to here.. sigh.