EVs aren't being forced on Canadians — if anything, they're being withheld from them
Rachel Doran is the executive director and Joanna Kyriazis is the director of public affairs at Clean Energy Canada, a think tank at Simon Fraser University's Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue.
You may have heard this one before: governments are 'forcing' people to buy electric vehicles. It's how U.S. President Donald Trump described the efforts of his predecessor and some in Canada have similarly accused the feds and certain provinces of pushing their green agenda on uninterested drivers.
For the record, drivers are not uninterested. A new survey from Abacus Data commissioned by Clean Energy Canada finds that 45 per cent of Canadians are inclined to get an EV as their next vehicle and that share is considerably higher in urban areas (55 per cent in the GTHA and a whopping 69 per cent in Metro Vancouver) and among younger Canadians (57 per cent of those under 30).
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