Ev vehicles sask

[Old Cowzilla]

I think we will be putting a radioactive chip in the mother board of our 1/2 tons before we solve this battery problem we just are not ready to admit it yet.

[Hamloc]

Good article in the Financial Post which addresses the loss of fuel taxes going towards road maintenance on electric vehicles. “Peter Shawn Taylor: What comes after the gas tax?” Undoubtedly at some point a fee per kilometre driven will be necessary how that is monitored and charged will be the only issues.

[burnt]

A short, stark synopsis on the utter idiocy of thinking that EVs and batteries are going to propel us forward.

It relates the insurmountable restraints of inefficiency of storage, logistics, infrastructure and of EVs, and more.

"Put simply: infrastructural engineering capability to provide for electric cars and electric heating by 2050 is a massive and probably unachievable ambition. To attempt to accelerate it, to 2030, is madness. The rest of the world can look at Britain and choose whether to laugh or weep. One thing it shouldn’t do is emulate us."

https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2020/03/18/electric_motors_versus_internal_combustion_engines_486956.amp.html

[WiltonRanch]

Not here to pan or praise ev’s. I don’t know enough about them nor give a rats arse until I see something which would be of some use to me. Otherwise, there most definitely needs to be a road tax on them to pay for the roads they use. Plain and simple. To think the ev crowd is any more special than the ice crowd they don’t need to pay their part is absurd. Going forward I think there will be other unintended consequences present themselves as more ev’s come on the road. Lol. Power grid in this province is bloody antiquated enough as it is I really fear for the future, a cold dark future, as coal plants are shuttered.

[STR1]

So there a $150 tax when you buy new Ev in Sask. Which in my option should be 1500. But anyways,this morning on 650 some environmental company will pay the tax for ya! How nice!

I think you are referring to the $150 per year SGI surcharge, that is charged to replace the road tax we pay at the pump? It’s on SGI website.

[Old Cowzilla]

SO....how do we make highways with GREEN sh it?

Horse and buggy guys leave a trail of brown sh it usually

[fjlip]

On the hi-way past my place super B's ev's and horse and buggy's go past every day but still all use hi-way made from stone and oil, lots of oil !

SO....how do we make highways with GREEN sh it?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

come on now !
thats a little deep for the likes of chuck
guys like him are so used to getting everything subsidized under the guise of clean energy they have lost sight of the big picture

But in credit to chuck, we had puddles in the depth of the drought this summer that were too deep for Chuck.

Chuck, try a mathematical exercise. Take it to the extreme that your leaders are mandating. At 100% EV's ( as they are promoting, including heavy trucking), and therefore no gas taxes collected anywhere, where does the funding come from for road maintenance and construction?

Do EV's not need snow plowed off, or sanding? Do they not wear the pavement out, or pack the gravel on gravel roads? Will nature stop heaving and cracking our roads if we all drive EV's? Will we never need to build a new road or upgrade an intersection if we all drive EV's?

Or do you expect to exponentially increase the fuel taxes on the remaining ICE vehicles, until the last person to be driving an ICE vehicle ends up shouldering the entire burden of maintaining our entire infrastructure all by themselves. Then what happens when the last ICE is driven off the road due to the astronomical cost, will it be OK to tax the EV's then?

come on now !
thats a little deep for the likes of chuck
guys like him are so used to getting everything subsidized under the guise of clean energy they have lost sight of the big picture

[Old Cowzilla]

On the hi-way past my place super B's ev's and horse and buggy's go past every day but still all use hi-way made from stone and oil, lots of oil !