A properly functioning electric car with a range of 400 or 500 kilometres, with respect, is a dream. It's not going to happen in the timeframes that we're talking about. We'll be lucky to have an affordable, properly functioning electric car in the next couple of decades that could do 200 or 250 kilometres, in my view. Electric cars are going to serve very useful purposes for shorter distances. But for what we're talking about, unless a way is devised of having small personal vehicles charged while they're in motion, such as how a streetcar gets its power from the cable, or the high-speed rail gets its power from the cable or the rail, so that you can drive on the 401, for example, and put an antenna out and grab some power as you're going, a kind of Jetsons scene, we're not going to see personal vehicles doing that. We're going to need something like high-speed rail or higher-speed rail.
On June 9th, 2009. See this statement in context.