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Source:www.bloomberg.com

Transport Minister Marc Garneau is thinking about expanding the government's rebate program for people who buy electric vehicles after eager car-buyers gobbled up nearly half the funds in just eight months.Garneau launched the incentive payments last May, offering up to $5,000 off the price of buying new electric and hybrid passenger vehicles to try to bring their price tags closer to those on similar gas models. Ottawa funded the program with $300 million, on a first-come, first-served basis, over the next three years. As of Jan. 19, Transport Canada reports that more than $134 million in rebates have already been issued to 33,000 Canadians. At that rate of uptake, the funds will be entirely gone before the end of this year. "It's very encouraging to see how many people are now thinking about and actually going ahead and buying [zero-emission vehicles],'' Garneau said outside the House of Commons...


Source:www.cbc.ca

<meta itemprop="width" content="1170"> <meta itemprop="height" content="1170"> Tesla Model X Cars.com photo by Christian Lantry One of the interesting things about Tesla is that its vehicles don?t seem to follow the same sort of production schedule of more traditional automakers. There are occasional physical changes to its vehicles, but most o...


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Transport Minister Marc Garneau is thinking about expanding the government?s rebate program for people who buy electric vehicles after eager car-buyers gobbled up nearly half the funds in just eight months.Garneau launched the incentive payments last May, offering up to $5,000 off the price of buying new electric and hybrid passenger vehicles to try and bring their price tags closer to those on similar gas models.Ottawa funded the program with $300 million, on a first-come, first-served basis, over the next three years.As of January 19, Transport Canada reports that more than $134 million in rebates have already been issued to 33,000 Canad...


Source:driving.ca

General Motors announced Monday that it will infuse $2.2 billion into its Detroit-Hamtramck plant in the Motor City, making it the future home of electric truck and SUV production for the automaker. This comes just months after the plant was saved in hard-fought negotiations between GM and the United Auto Workers Union, which prevented the…


Source:www.thedrive.com