When Judy Goodwin wanted to test drive an electric car, she didn’t head to a dealership. “They’re hard to come by,” she said of electric vehicles (EVs). Boosting supply is essential to revving up electric car adoption by Canadians, said Merran Smith, executive director of Clean Energy Canada, a program housed at Simon Fraser University. And the numbers suggest incentives work: Quebec and B.C., which each offer healthy EV incentives, also lead the country in electric car adoption. Advocates say one roadblock to the wider adoption of electric vehicles is the availability of charging infrastructure.

Source: CBC News November 07, 2021 09:08 UTC