of Canadian new vehicle registrations, Smith doesn't think they'll be a fit for Alberta.
She drove a plug-in hybrid vehicle during last summer's UCP leadership race, Smith said in a July episode of her radio program. "I found that the charging stations were sparse, they didn't work half the time, they weren't in the right place, it took hours to be able to get a charge. That's not going to work in our environment."
"This is a conversation that should have happened in the 1990s," said Blake Shaffer, an expert in electricity markets and climate change economics at University of Calgary. That's a massive endeavour for a technology with little market uptake; fewer than 0.1 per cent of new Canadian vehicles since the start of last year are fuel cell-powered, according to S&P Global Mobility. Wilkinson wouldn't have luck driving his car outside of B.C.'s Lower Mainland; it's the only North American area outside California with multipleService Alberta Minister Dale Nally is assigned to help ensure Alberta becomes another such place.