🇨🇦 B.C. Quietly Retreats on EV Mandate — Green Theology Meets Economic Reality

British Columbia is rolling back its zero-emission vehicle sales mandate from 100% to 75% — a quiet admission that the province's electric vehicle revolution was built on political fantasy rather than market readiness. No charging infrastructure to support mass adoption. No grid capacity to handle it. No affordability pathway for working families. But the mandate existed anyway, because the optics of being first mattered more than the logistics of being functional.

This is the standard arc of green policy in Canada: announce an aggressive target, get the headlines, ignore the engineering and economics, then quietly walk it back when the deadline gets close enough to be embarrassing. The 100% mandate was never a plan — it was a press release. Now B.C. is at 75% and calling it progress. Dealerships were staring down unsellable inventory mandates, consumers were balking at price premiums, and the grid wasn't ready. Reality did not negotiate with the mandate. The mandate blinked first. Watch for the federal government to run the same play on a dozen other green targets over the next five years.

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