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It’s a long drive from Vancouver to Lake Louise, and you could use a break, a little pick-me-up for you and your car.

Park your electric car on a hot parking spot, the kind with a wireless charging unit built into the pavement. It’s just a bigger version of the cordless pad that charges your phone.

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In the time it takes you to have a cup of coffee and a doughnut, you are back on the road with a clear head and a charged battery.

If that sounds futuristic, remember that today’s electric cars are more Fred Flintstone than they are George Jetson. With improved batteries, a decade from now you and your dog Astro will be driving to the Rockies on a single charge.

It is a future the province is keen to encourage, as it grapples with ambitious greenhouse gas emission targets while developing a carbon-intensive liquid natural gas industry.

Only last year, electric car owners were blogging their trips across Canada, driving across the vastness from charging oasis to oasis to prove it could be done.