Re: [EVDL] Electric vehicle subsidies: expensive and ineffective?

Not to dig up an old bone, but I happen to be cruising this "institute's" site, looking to see what "values" they were trying to bend lately. Well thankfully their focus wasn't on EVs lately, just more reports that our oil companies are being taxed too much, our drug prices shouldn't be capped and

Re: [EVDL] Electric vehicle subsidies: expensive and ineffective?

On 3 Aug 2017 at 16:27, Dan Baker via EV wrote: > From their site it's hard to tell where there funding comes from, they do list > their funding as 27% from businesses and 70% from "foundations". One of their > Directors bios shows he has direct ties to big oil. It's kind of negative to say it,

Re: [EVDL] Electric vehicle subsidies: expensive and ineffective?

I'll try to read the article later, but if you are talking about "city pollution" as the health-based pollution of ozone, particulates, etc. - then you are not referring to cutting greenhouse gases, per the OP. As a class, GHGs do not have acute health effects. That being said, reduction of "

Re: [EVDL] Electric vehicle subsidies: expensive and ineffective?

Hey Lawrence I agree your math is more correct. I didn't see the article originally when it came out but if you google the title of this thread you will see lots of media outlets ran with it, mostly Canadian but some American ones as well. I saw it this morning when a local paper (metro news) ra

Re: [EVDL] Electric vehicle subsidies: expensive and ineffective?

The EPA (https://www.epa.gov/energy/greenhouse-gases-equivalencies-calculator-calculations-and-references ) calculates 4.73 metric tons CO2/vehicle/year for a passenger car, so 47.3 over 10 years

Re: [EVDL] Electric vehicle subsidies: expensive and ineffective?

From their site it's hard to tell where there funding comes from, they do list their funding as 27% from businesses and 70% from "foundations". One of their Directors bios shows he has direct ties to big oil. Even more, I found they published yet another article against EVs: Consumers will pay t

Re: [EVDL] Electric vehicle subsidies: expensive and ineffective?

Dan Baker via EV wrote: In a report released in June, the Montreal Economic Institute concluded provincial subsidies were the most expensive, least effective way to help cut greenhouse gas emissions. https://www.iedm.org/71213-electric-vehicle-subsidies-expensive-and-ineffective Would anyone ca

Re: [EVDL] Electric vehicle subsidies: expensive and ineffective?

This appears to be another case of an author or editor who decides in advance what outcome he (or the corporate sponsor) desires, and then tailors the data and analysis to reach that conclusion. The tl;dr: money talks. David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = =

Re: [EVDL] Electric vehicle subsidies: expensive and ineffective?

Dan Baker wrote: > Would anyone care to comment on this? Agree or disagree? Is it oil > funded > FUD? I live in Nova Scotia, Canada, one of the have-not provinces for EV > rebates. I can affirm that without rebates EV car sales here are pretty > well nonexistent, most dealers here carry very li

Re: [EVDL] Electric vehicle subsidies: expensive and ineffective?

I note that the publication focuses on wealth and nothing about health anywhere in the article. The present range of EV's are particularly suited to the reduction of city pollution and it will take more than the death of ICE's to reduce CO2 reduction. One step at a time!  Sent from my Samsung G