I hope British Columbia does something like this too. At $15000 for a Hymotion plug-in conversion I'd be way more likely to do it if I could get a little help! As it is now, I'll wait a few years to see if the battery cost comes down...

I would say that it's almost a certainty that battery costs will go down. Also the Hymotion convertion is 60% profit.... That too will go down as competition heats up.

The Hymotion price tag is hard to justify. In a best case scenario I would be saving about $1200 a year in fuel bills. (That's with factoring in about $120 extra in electric bills.) That's 12 years worth of fuel to get their PHEV upgrade...

As batteries improve, and more DYI people publish their results, we might see an influx of kits. Those might push conversion costs down to about $6000 (CDN). Then we will be talking... I personally don't think it's worth it until you can recoup your cost within the warranty period of the upgrade....