The Ontario NDP has unveiled a zero-emissions vehicle strategy.
Leader Andrea Horwath near Peterborough earlier this week for the announcement and says the climate crisis is the greatest threat our world faces.
With Horwath’s strategy, all new vehicle sales in Ontario will be zero-emissions cars and trucks by 2035, and all transit fleets will get provincial support to be electrified by 2040.
Bill Bruesch of the Electric Vehicle Society says going electric is easy and the right thing to do.
The zero-emissions vehicle strategy includes:
-Provide world-leading financial incentives for Ontario auto manufacturing plants to re-tool to produce electric vehicles
-Set a province-wide electric vehicle sales target of 15 per cent by 2025, 45 per cent by 2030, and 100 per cent by 2035
-Offer strong incentives to buy an electric vehicle, excluding luxury vehicles but with added incentive to buy manufactured-in-Canada electric vehicles
-Completely electrify government fleets by 2030
-Give $600 to households to install a charging station at home
-Require builders to put vehicle charging capacity in new homes
-Build charging stations on public properties, like GO Train stations and along roadways
