Electric vehicles started as a niche market for rich people in Silicon Valley. We need to actually make them like the workhorse, the family vehicle that everyone can afford. I think those vehicles are available in the rest of the world. They're hard to find here.
For instance, the B.C. government just announced some changes, and I wasn't terribly delighted with all of them, but one thing they're going to look at offering is partial extra credits for vehicles under a certain price point. Basically, there's an incentive for car manufacturers to start building those here and putting them on the market. They're exploring ways of providing 0% financing for vehicles, again, under a certain market...so you're making sure that these cars are available to your average working family and not just to the wealthy. We shouldn't have polluting cars for poor people and clean cars for rich people. That's not the kind of Canada we want to have.