Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in Ottawa-Gatineau

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At current prices they're almost exclusively for people who want to make political statements (or more likely get laid).

If prices were to drop somewhat they would may sense for people who put on heavy mileage in the city (stittsville residents, uber drivers) or make very predictable out-of town trips, and only in jurisdictions that heavily discount night electricity rates.

They are seen as a panacea by ontario liberals because they are way of consuming the province's electricity glut but other jurisdictions (and other Ontario parties) will not be nearly as desperate to promote their use.

Beyond that, almost nothing about EVs are scalable. Governments cannot afford to provide subsidies at scale, charging stations cannot be installed at scale, electricity cannot be produced at scale, incentives for HOV lanes cannot be replicated at scale and it is unclear lithium and other metals and minerals can be produced at scale. An EV future would require large increases in power production (which in most places means coal) large increases in strip mining, and a large increase in parking lots to charge the things.