I wonder if this concept car contains anything Canada-specific in its design. For example, Canadian winters are bad for batteries, have they done anything to compensate for that? Extra clearance for getting over snowbanks when you’re plowed in?
If there’s nothing unique about it, it will be hard to compete not just with Tesla, but also with Rivian, BYD, and all the traditional car companies with electric models.
Tesla has created a vacuum since nobody wants to buy their swastikars outside of the USA, and there’s international support to buy Canadian. We have the steel, aluminum, and minerals for batteries domestically. I could see it working.
LiFePo battery chemistry is go to for affordable EV battery packs that also do a bit better than performance battery chemistry in cold. A tech innovation with commercial production in China is Sodium Ion batteries. These perform best in cold, heaviest, but long term lowest cost material/scarcity equation.
I wonder if this concept car contains anything Canada-specific in its design. For example, Canadian winters are bad for batteries, have they done anything to compensate for that? Extra clearance for getting over snowbanks when you’re plowed in?
If there’s nothing unique about it, it will be hard to compete not just with Tesla, but also with Rivian, BYD, and all the traditional car companies with electric models.
Tesla has created a vacuum since nobody wants to buy their swastikars outside of the USA, and there’s international support to buy Canadian. We have the steel, aluminum, and minerals for batteries domestically. I could see it working.
LiFePo battery chemistry is go to for affordable EV battery packs that also do a bit better than performance battery chemistry in cold. A tech innovation with commercial production in China is Sodium Ion batteries. These perform best in cold, heaviest, but long term lowest cost material/scarcity equation.
TBF the fact that it would be Canadian would set it apart from other electric vehicles. And other vehicles in general, really.
* Fully Canadian.
We make tons of cars, or at least did, just in cooperation with the rest of NA.