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Canada introduces $5,000 incentive to buy electric vehicles

May 2, 2019

Now how about some incentives to get people out of cars?

That’s former astronaut Marc Garneau, now Canada’s Minister of Transport, with Member of Parliament Deb Schulte pretending to fill up an electric car, as if you stand beside an electric car for an hour like when you are pumping gas. But hey, it’s a press release announcing a the start of a new incentive program for zero emission vehicles. The Feds say “We know that the higher cost of zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) can make it more difficult to adopt this clean technology. The iZEV program and new tax write-offs for businesses will help make it more affordable.”

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