For Pete’s sake… the USA still uses Coal to produce electricity. Talk about backwards.

And where do you think the USA gets the largest portion of its imported energy? They get it from Canada; one the world’s largest producers of natural resources and energy. In fact, Canada produces way more than it uses. The majority of Canada’s produced energy (including electricity) is exported to the USA.

And remember that big black out that affected most of the Northeastern & Midwestern United States, and Ontario, Canada, in August 2003? Well, that was caused by a massive power fluctuation that affected the New York State power transmission grid! [The USA and Canadian power grids are connected.] The grid in New York is so out-of-date and overworked, that they caused a black-out in a sigificant portion of the Eastern half of 2 of the worlds largest countries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Blackout_of_2003

To those cocky Americans who don’t think much of Canada, read the following article from your own country’s “Energy Information Administration” website, and educate yourselves:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cabs/Canada/Background.html

The only reason why the Volt is not being released in Canada yet is for obvious reasons. GM has to make 100% sure that the vehicle will stand up to Canadian Winter conditions as well as other Canadian standards set by the Canadian Government. If you think its the power grid, just think of how much more natural resources and as well as modern, clean, renewable energy Canada has in comparison to the USA. The Canadian power grid is far more better off than its USA counterpart; both environmentally and technologically.

There may be a danger of the Canadian VOLT launch bringing down the Canadian power grid system???

How do you figure that? The Power Grid in Ontario and Quebec is Ideal for EV’s. Most power is produced through large scale nuclear or hydro. Since these installations aren’t normally shut down during the evening/night due to cost and logistics most of the power generated during that period is bled off and wasted. Evening/night is the ideal time to have an EV plugged in for charging so we would be using power that would normally be wasted anyway and we wouldn’t have to upgrade the grid by adding capacity. We wouldn’t be paying anymore for electricity than we normally do now. Go educate yourself.