It's a great question, and I appreciate it. I think we're all closer to the idea of consumer choice than not. At the end of the day, again, my fear is that if one technology is pushed too far, consumers will just hang on to older, higher-polluting vehicles, which doesn't actually help the environment.
If you look at the rough numbers from over the past 20 years, GHG emissions from the passenger and light vehicle market are around 11%. That's been maintained. Even though we've had great expansion in population and great expansion in on-road vehicles, we're actually keeping steady with respect to the percentage of emissions coming from the auto sector. The reason is that's it's driven by technology—having lighter vehicles overall, bringing aluminum into the car, having more efficient engines. Electrification is part of that. Every manufacturer is working on different models to adjust to that.
I think the exciting thing about the Prime Minister's announcement is that it will be technology-neutral. If you bring in a technology that reduces greenhouse gases, it doesn't have to be electric. On the electric side of the equation, the thing that I hear from dealers across the country—I spend a lot of time travelling with dealers and their customers—is that they don't have range anxiety anymore; they have charging anxiety. I didn't make that phrase up. I heard it in multiple different communities across the country. Consumers love the technology, but they're worried about whether they can get it charged at the right period of time. That charging infrastructure has to match the point of adoption.
