Ontario suspends registrations of converted electric vehicles (update: ban lifted)
I'm looking for more details, but it appears the forward-thinking province of Ontario (Canada's most populous province, and location of most of Canada's conversions) has put a moratorium in place on the registration of electric conversions.
Not yet sure how this will affect the ForkenSwift, or whether it only applies to new applications. Here's a letter in today's Ottawa Citizen from a member of Ottawa's EV group (who also runs a business doing conversions): Quote:
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I'd be curious as to how much the oil lobby has to do with this kind of thing...
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Or the fact that the Ontario government is a significant shareholder in Government Motors, along with the US & Canadian feds.
Or it may simply be a case of the Nanny State being annoying for no good reason. Sometimes it's nice to be coddled by Nanny. Other times, not so much :D |
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Onterrible has a structural deficit, the current one is over 20 billion dollars. This is a freeze to look and see if they can shake down more money out of people; that, and Onterrible is a haven for nanny state style useless rules and regulations. I don't foresee an electric car in my future, but I think it's an awful thing that my home province is trying to put the kibosh on people making electric conversions. Unfortunately, they went this way long ago with kit-cars, effectively legislating/regulating them out of existence in the province, by treating them as vehicles requiring full compliance to the myriad of crash tests and other compliance regulations that the major automakers must file for each model they sell. So, really, I expect to hear that they go the same route with EV conversions. Previously registered cars might squeak by unburdened by new regs, fees, taxes, fees for the tax, and/or taxes for the fees; new ones produced by the cottage conversion industry might not. *Canada Gasoline Tax Information - Ontario Gas Prices |
Nice. Big oil AND government are slapping high fives. Welcome to North America.
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Does this mean you might have to make the ForkenSwift into a hybrid? That wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.
Re-reading the first post, it seems that the moratorium affects not just homemade EVs, but also commercial ones, eh? |
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Unless... I wonder if the moratorium may have to do with someone/some people exploiting the EV registration process to bypass emissions testing. At the local drivers/licenses office, the ForkenSwift's registration was ultimately changed from "g" (gasoline) to "e" without any supporting documentation/inspection required. Note that "e" also grants an exemption from the province's Drive Clean emissions program. Theoretically, anyone could walk in and say "my car is electric" and get their registration changed. I wonder if the ministry of transportation noted a spike in "e" registrations at some office(s) in the province. Imagine a used car dealer or curbsider discovering and exploiting this trick, registering a bunch of ICE vehicles as electrics to circumvent emissions compliance. Quote:
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The province hasn't made any public statement on this. It was discovered this spring by a couple of people who completed conversions and were reportedly denied the EV designation on their registration. |
Stupid dogs in the manger! They cannot take on the real challenges, so they pick on small fries like EV modders.
If these guys were around ol' Henry would have been denied a factory permit, and we would have been very eco-friendly (plenty of horse manure to go around for everyone's kitchen garden!) Sheesh! |
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When I see this stuff I look for an event that might have triggered the legislation. Maybe an EV got in an accident where the safety was called into question. But the "EV Registration Loophole Theory" does have merit. CarloSW2 |
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