Industry committee  We can definitely become world leaders not only in producing vehicles that address commuters and shipping cars for corporate clients, but also in providing vehicles that address the environmental concerns you've identified there, absolutely.

Industry committee  I would like to put my order in for a fully electric Ford GT right here with everybody watching.

Industry committee  [Technical difficulty-—Editor] productivity for ourselves, being able to start with the new vehicles and engineer them so that the productivity is optimized per hour and per employee. That's engineered into today's vehicles. We look at it as being a new product going forth. The

Industry committee  We're [Technical difficulty—Editor] but we have already explored China—I was in China—for manufacturing the vehicles, and we have, through the Government of B.C., a contact to India: 100,000 vehicles in either place without really too much effort. A template similar to what was

Industry committee  Looking at what has been successful recently, over the past 10 years in the automotive industry, no car company has been more successful than the Tesla automotive company. That's been largely due to consumer demand. The fossil fuel vehicles are comparable to a fax machine, wherea

Industry committee  No reason was given. There's great interest in our vehicles. The BDC representatives here in British Columbia have test driven our prototypes, and they all love them. They all show up for photo opportunities, but nothing tangible actually comes forth. We have 20,500 written reser

Industry committee  Yes, we've approached the BDC and got nowhere there. We've approached private banks and got nowhere there.

Industry committee  Certainly. It's been quite frustrating. Through global warming and seeing petroleum products and pipelines proliferating, it's an area of the world that everybody, the average person, understands is unsustainable and wants to move forward on. We have largely funded our company th

Industry committee  The fair trade question is a good one. It's a comment and it's not just the fair trade. That's one component of it, but it's the entire footprint of the products that are being imported. Asbestos in brake pads is a legitimate claim. How are the vehicles being produced? How are t

Industry committee  Good afternoon, everybody. I'm Jerry Kroll, chief executive officer of Electra Meccanica Vehicles in Vancouver, which is a Vancouver-based electric vehicle manufacturing company with operations in Vancouver, New Westminster, and Victoria, with approximately 15 employees, the majo