@sj_zero@social.fbxl.net I mean, I live in Ottawa, and just drove from Toronto. Been through the winter. Is it 100% parity? No. Are there disadvantages? Sure. Are they big problems for me? No.

And I don't heat my garage, but I do have the schedule set to pre-condition before departure…

I know Toronto and Ottawa consider themselves the center of the universe, but they are not, in fact, most of Canada. Spend a winter in Thompson, the Battlefords, Fort Mac, or some of the rest of most of Canada. You won't even wear a jacket in Ottawa's winter by comparison.

We live in an authoritarian regime whose stated goal is the elimination of ICE vehicles by 2035[1]. Despite the fact that most of Canada isn't Toronto, Ottawa, or Vancouver, and many of the cities I talked about will become essentially impossible to travel to or from in February. The consequences for most of Canada will be cataclysmic, closing off a lot of cities and towns for months of the year.

#electrifycanada is what you said, and unfortunately those are the connotations of saying that. No projection required, just the cold hard reality of a state that considers most of the country not worthy of any consideration. Most of Canada is just colonial holdings a few cities in Canada can extract resources from and impose rules on.

Now, on the other hand, I will admit, maybe you weren't thinking of any of this. Maybe you just have this new EV and you like it and that's all you were saying, especially seeing other people happy with their purchase of similar new EVs. Well, in that case none of what I say applies, I wish you the best and apologize for misconstruing what you said. I'd like a low cost EV to put beside my ICE car for jetting around town, I could probably do 90% of my running around in something like that. I've been looking at an older Nissan Leaf, they're reaching that magical 10k price point that might be ok for a second vehicle that I can't do anything with but run around town, and I can lose that 10k as a failed gamble if it turns out the car really doesn't work after all even for running around town.

The key is the difference between having the option for electric and being mandated to use electric, and right now we're on track to unspeakable suffering for millions of people.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/canada-says-all-cars-trucks-must-be-zero-emission-by-2035-industry-unhappy-2023-12-19/