Battery powered cars are crap for hostile climates.

So you get up in the morning and the car is covered with ice. With gas cars, you can remote start them with the rear window defroster on bust, the electric seats on, the front defrost on -- then have breakfast. When you are ready, the rest of the ice and snow can be scraped off easily.

Then you can drive or idle, heat on full bast, for 8 hours or more. Refueling only takes a few minutes. Even at Costco with six cars in front of you, you can still get out in 10 minutes.

Compare that with limited range when it is -10C and the cabin heater and defrost is on continuously and you get to a charging station on the highway and there are eight cars in front of you.

Hybrids were the solution. Regenerative braking, gasoline backup, excellent fuel economy.