RE:A Canadian built Electric Car for CanadaA truck to move a piece of wood... so your going to insure, register, and maintain a truck so it can sit around 99% of the time so that one instant you need to grab a piece of wood... get a small trailer for your car man.. that thing will be happy to sit around and will cost you much less.
Anyways, the tech that goes into these cars isn't expensive to manufacture.. the cost for that stuff is upfront in the R & D which all good manufacturing companies invest a bit into to stay competitive...
The expensive part of electric vehilces still comes down to the battery and the electric motors because of the raw materials that need to go into the production of them.