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To nudge you, Quebec offers a rebate of up to $8,000 if you buy an electric car; and it will pitch in for half of a 240-volt plug-in station, up to maximum of $1,000.

That’s not quite as sweet as Ontario’s offer of $8,500, along with up to $1,000 to offset the cost of the charging unit.

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But Quebec is the only province — so far, at least — to peg the cost of a vehicle’s annual registration fee to the size of its engine. That measure was announced Tuesday in the provincial government’s economic update.

The traditionally accepted way of imposing punitive measures on gas guzzlers has been to tax gas ever higher. But that’s a universal punitive measure — and is not particularly eco-friendly. People will grumble, but they generally put up with it, which does not help the environment.

But even incentives and ubiquitous promotion of electric and hybrid vehicles have not exactly saturated the market with them.