EVs are not 100% emission free. In fact it requires approximately 3X more energy to build an EV than it does an internal combustion engine vehicle. When you factor in the energy used to build, dispose of and recycle EV batteries and electric motors they only start contributing less Co2 globally after a certain amount of km and time driven. Based on current statistics, If you are a person who only drives once or twice a week you will contribute less Co2 by owning an efficient ICE vehicle.
Hey can you help me I just bought Tesla I'm moving to the lower mainland next week. I'm moving from AB. I don't have a car here How can I register the dam thing?!
I wonder on average ... are Electric Vehicles insurance more expensive as to conventional gas powered vehicle ... I'm guessing insuring these Electric vehicles in BC are extremely high
Hi I forgot to mention that in the video, I pay approx $180 month so it isn't too expensive or too cheap. I know some others have said they pay between $2000 to $3000 a year.
@@PRINYATIP It was about $200 month. However I have a clean driving record too so that helps. Yeah I love the Model 3 and highly recommend test driving one.
@@VancouverLiving absolutely! These cars are beautiful and great on the environment. The incentive BC is offering for purchasing EV is a bonus. Well keep up the great content. Very informative!
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If you had a long range Tesla. Probably 2 or 3 hours longer than normal gas vehicle. You just have to factor in the time you need to stop and charge the car with the vast number of charging stations available, it is doable
@@VancouverLiving ???? Which is it? Probably 2 or 3 hours longer than normal gas vehicle. Or probably 2 or 3 hours longer than normal gas vehicle plus the time needed to recharge?
@@DanielRieger Wrong. My question was "how long would it take for me to drive from Winnipeg to Vancouver?", not "how long does it take to recharge the vehicle?". They way he answered doesn't tell us if the drive will take 2 or 3 hours longer OR if all the times you stopped for 5 minutes to refill the gas tank would now be 2 or 3 hours so you could recharge the vehicle. In other words, it currently isn't practical to use an electric vehicle to drive across the country.
@@cnault3244 Of course that's not the case. 30 min charging on a super charger gives you a lot of juice already. Counting on the entire trip, an extra 2, 3 hours sounds about right. It's not something insane. If you drive that long, you'll need to stop to rest and eat anyway, and you can charge during those times, it's very much feasible. Electric vehicles these days are getting as much range as gas. I had a gas car that did 400 something km on a tank. A tesla, or even a Bolt has 420+ km range on a full battery... about the same.
Sure as hell would never get an ev. Though I suppose if you did move to Vancouver, that would mean you are seriously loaded with cash. Like wealthy big time. Nobody else can afford to live in Vancouver. Likewise, only the wealthy can afford an EV. It is really quite disgusting when rich people like this guy pretend that buying an ev is no big thing. Besides the cost of the car alone, which is almost twice a normal car, just the replacement of an ev battery is close to $6,000 kand that is for a Nissan leaf). Ev's are quite simply, toys for the uber wealthy. The middle class tax payer will never be able to afford one.
@@zabsar3615 your defn of middle class is probably the same as trudeau and his so called minister of middle class. The average middle class can't afford to live in Vancouver. Hell, trudeau thinks homes in Vancouver are not even a million $. And besides the cost of an EV being far more than a regular car, insurance is more too. Electric cars are a rich man's toy, not for the average Joe.
@@ReasonMakes not angry nor ignorant. Just very much aware of facts rather than what the govt tells me I am supposed to believe. Ev's, when you factor in production and disposal, ev's are pretty much just as carbon heavy (or more) as a combust. Now you add twice the cost for an ev car, plus $10,000 every 10 years for a new battery, plus limited places to recharge plus time spent charging, plus the thousands to install a charger at home, and I am seeing ZERO benefit to an EV, period. Really at the end of the day, goody political posturing politicians are making everyone else who can't afford one, pay for rebates for the wealthy to pick up a shiny new $100,000 tesla. Has trudeau ever actually addressed how the low income families taxes are paying for $100,000 ev rebates? Nope. Has he ever addressed the extreme carbon cost of ev production? Nope. Has he ever spoke about how Canada plans to dispose of the short life batteries from ev cars, that are all but garbage since they are not recylable, so they will quickly fill up landfills? Of course not. Mr. Pious is too busy suckering people like you to vote for him because he condemns the use of combust engines. Which by the way, comprises of his massive fleet of full size SUV's that his entire entourage of security, media and admin staff tag along every time he leaves the house, not to mention his full size jet he uses to criss cross the country in order to make 5 minute appearances to announce tens of billions in funding, plus the additional fullsize plane he uses to carry just his election banners. Let's face it, 99.9% of people who push ev's or drive them, do so simply for the "show" of either wealth or the pretense of being being some climate savior. Not one has actually given the entire beginning to end a second thought. At this point, combust engine cars are not only more economical and affordable, but more convenient, longer lasting, durable and more carbon friendly beginning to end.
