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Transport Canada change forces BC Ferries to prohibit damaged EVs
For towing companies on Vancouver Island, there is no shortage of work handling those vehicles.
“We probably handle 10 to 15 EVs a day,” said Don Affleck, owner of Peninsula Towing.
“[We handle] between two and four a week,” said Johnathan Vipond, owner of Salt Spring Island Towing.
However, towing companies may now face a harder time accepting jobs involving electric vehicles. The two towing company owners recently received a memo from BC Ferries outlining that many electric vehicles will no longer be allowed to sail onboard its vessels.
“It’s a problem brewing. There’s a storm brewing,” said Affleck.
BC Ferries says that due to changes by Transport Canada, electric, hybrid and alternative energy vehicles are prohibited from charging up onboard vessels and on its properties.
Vehicles with minor or cosmetic damage that isn’t affecting wiring or the battery will be allowed at the discretion of the vessel master, so long as they are driven under their own power.
Vehicles with major damage including exposed batteries, fluid leaks or wiring issues won’t be allowed on board. That also includes vehicles that are placed on flat-bed trucks such as tow trucks.
BC Ferries does say full-sized commercial car carriers transporting operable and undamaged used or new vehicles to dealerships will be permitted.
“There’s no way for me to tow it over on a flat bed tow truck because their wording stated that if it is inoperable — which is going to be on a tow truck — I can’t take it onboard their vessels,” said Vipond.
BC Ferries — which is regulated by Transport Canada — say the change is meant to prevent risks associated with EV batteries.
https://cheknews.ca/transport-canada-change-forces-bc-ferries-to-prohibit-many-evs-1264072/
Gawd….just like Trudeau, Carnage embarrasses himself (and Canada) on the world front only this is at a whole other level. If the east was thinking Carnage was the man to “handle” Trump when they voted him in, they are now just waking up to what we in the west knew instinctively from the start.
The new Emperor has no clothes?
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Thanks to Donald Trump, Canada’s Digital Sales Tax is gone. (Good.) All it took was for somebody to tell the US president what was going on up in Canada, there followed a frown and then, “Tell those people we’re done talking until they stop doing that.”
That was easy. In fact, would Mr. Trump now address supply management?
Talk about a complete capitulation. Couldn’t have been smoother if we were the 51st State.
Shed no tears for the Digital Services Tax, by the way. This was a bad tax, one of Justin Trudeau’s ideas.
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