VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – If you’re hoping to make your next car one that’s better for the environment, be prepared to wait several months.
A new report from Clean Energy Canada finds demand is outweighing the supply of electric vehicles in B.C. It finds only 40 per cent of the province’s 322 dealerships have electric cars available on their lots. Most say wait times are anywhere from three months to more than a year.
Policy Director Dan Woynillowicz says potential buyers can’t even find one to test drive.
For Randy Rinaldo, a Burnaby resident and father of two, buying an electric car “was one of the best decisions I ever made.” But getting one wasn’t easy—Randy had to buy his car in the U.S. There should be more options to buy electric here in B.C. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #kickgas pic.twitter.com/Iq9v6CydG9
— Clean Energy Canada (@cleanenergycan) October 17, 2018
“For consumers, you can’t buy what you can’t find. Growing numbers of British Columbians are saying that they’d like to choose an electric car,” he says. “B.C. Hydro commissioned a survey that found that one in three British Columbians want their next car to be electric. Chances are you’re probably going to go back to a gas car, and that’s a missed opportunity in terms of both cutting pollution – electric cars are much cleaner on the environment – and affordability.”
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He also suggests B.C. follow Quebec’s lead when it comes to boosting stocks, so when they want to choose electric, cars are available. They are hoping by 2030, one third of all cars sold in B.C. are electric.
Similar policies are already in place in Quebec, California and Quebec.
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