The Trudeau Liberals' new rules for accelerating the country's car fleet's transition to electric traction and banning the sale of cars with gasoline engines as early as 2035 have caused a growing wave of criticism.

One of the problems, in addition to the high cost of EVs, is their operation in rural and remote areas of Canada.

Many provinces simply do not have enough capacity to ensure uninterrupted charging of batteries if the number of EVs continues to grow at such a rate.

And building new power plants costs billions and takes much longer.

In addition, the $678 million allocated by the government for a program to purchase and install 90,000 charging stations in 2016-2027 is being used extremely inefficiently - today only one in every five is operational.

A second program, launched in 2019, will add another 33,500 stations were supposed to be operational by 2025, but only 6,697 of them have been put into operation.

Industry leaders say the new federal rules do not reflect the reality of the situation and are therefore doomed to failure.

“It is not based on reality,” said Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive

Parts Manufacturers Association, “and it is 100% impossible.