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Old 01-10-2019, 05:17 PM   #38 (permalink)
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End of Ontario rebate = sales collapse

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Originally Posted by redpoint5 View Post
with subsidy, they become quite attractive, but without, sales have been shown to plummet. Georgia (US state) comes to mind.
You can add Ontario to the list:

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Nissan Leaf sales collapse in Ontario after incentive axed

According to Nissan Canada, it sold 695 electric vehicles in Ontario in August. By November, those sales dropped to 10. That’s not a typo.
https://driving.ca/nissan/leaf/auto-...incentive-axed

Pretty dramatic.

But that may not be a 100% representative stat, because the cancellation of the rebate was announced several months in advance, which probably pushed a bunch of fence-sitters into making purchases before the rebate went away, inflating the "before" figure.

The owner of the Prius Prime I got to drive for a week took the plunge for that very reason.
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