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Wow! 50 years? What is gonna keep us going till then? we are approximately 10 tears from peak oil with conventional oil being mined out in 50 years at the current rate. Sure, Canada is sitting on 100 years of unconventional oil but that's at the current rate of usage, and doesn't account for having to replace the conventional oil.  
Gas vehicles will be the minority in 10 years, and I doubt that they will still be sold as new vehicles. Electric is the only thing with enough potential right now. Other options could be hydrogen and methane. hydrogen requires too much energy currently to manufacture, and no one seems to be working on methane. Yes, we will have to up our electrical production to i:nclude transportation. We will have to embrace nuclear once peak oil hits. We should start the planning stages for them now unless we want to go back to coal. We need the energy, If we are not smart, we will be forced back to coal.

B.C. Hydro is concerned about the number of car-fuffles breaking out at electric vehicle charging stations.  
A B.C. Hydro report found almost a quarter of EV drivers surveyed have bickered with a fellow EV driver at a public charging station, and almost one-third have witnessed such an argument.  
Authorities believe the reason for the number of arguments is the lack of awareness of proper EV charging etiquette.  
For example, the survey found that more than 30 per cent of EV owners have had another EV driver unplug, or attempt to unplug their vehicle while it was charging at a public station.  
Twenty-four per cent have experienced “extreme frustration” when other EV drivers use a public charger to fully charge their vehicle.  
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/b-c-drivers-bicker-at-ev-charging-stations

North America is so far behind. Go to places like Norway which have harsh winters, mountains, snow, large areas with low population and they seem to manage just fine with electric vehicle, when I was there recently I would say half the vehicles are electric. There are electric fleet vehicles in the US with over 500 000 miles on them (how many combustion engines can say that) with very minimal upkeep costs when compared to their gas burning counterparts. Most of the evidence is there for the technology, it’s a simple matter of looking for it.

A modern internal combustion engine when maintained properly is easily capable of covering 500,000 miles and as someone who used to conduct ministry of transport emissions testing in the UK I can state that modern vehicles run extremely cleanly when looked after properly.