Only when the government leaves them alone. I don't have that much faith in any government and none at all in our current dippers.
DO you want to sit in a gas station for 2 hrs. Waiting for your car to charge?
Recently I ran into a guy has an electric smart car. No range at all. To go from Campbell River to Nanaimo he has to stop in QUalicum Beach to charge to guarantee that he will make it one way. O f a person lived in say Pt. Hardy he could never drive out of town because it is too far to the next place to recharge.
Didn't work out so well for the busses.
I recall how the Ballard cell would revolutionize the world and we'd all be living in Utopia by 2013, coincidentally, the same year that we saw an ice free North pole
According to the OBDII on my truck I produce give or take 16oz per mile at 38mph hwy/city combined.Engines powered by hydrogen fuel cells produce zero greenhouse-gas emissions; their only by-product is water. Compared to diesel, the fuel-cell buses reduced carbon dioxide emissions by more than 4,400 tonnes over five years
Create a wealthy population?
Easier to drive them further under the gubmint heel by eliminating any alternative and (generously) offering to lease these EVs for the equivalent of a small mortgage
You do the math on an after tax basis and tell me, based on your reference to $120k how practical it is to expect that the average Canadian family that needs 2 cars to earn that kind of money.
Fact is, your assumption relative to the cost of that car is way over the top
How does a cripple get on a bike?