Madam Speaker, if we were to assume that, on the low end, the average vehicle uses about 100,000 litres of gas in its lifetime, and the average price of gas right now is $1.20 a litre, that means that driving an EV would save people, over the lifespan of the vehicle, $120,000. We would come nowhere close to spending a quarter of that on electricity, so even if the price tag of purchasing the vehicle, in the member's words, was $15,000 more, the average person would save tens of thousands of dollars over the lifetime of the vehicle.
Notwithstanding the fact that the sticker price is still going to impede a number of people, which I agree with the member on, would he not agree that, over the lifetime of the vehicle, people would see a significant cost savings?