The Globe and Mail reports in its Monday edition that there are some potholes along the West Coast's "green highway." The Globe's Justine Hunter writes that BC Hydro signed a deal with a San Francisco company four years ago to expand a network of fast-charge stations for electric vehicles. The deal would provide EV drivers with reliable battery charging services from British Columbia's Interior down to California. The infrastructure still is not as reliable as the proponents of EVs hope for. Blair Qualey, chief executive officer of the New Car Dealers Association of BC, took a Chevrolet Bolt EV on a road trip to the B.C. Interior, confident he would be able to stop at a fast-charging station to juice up his car battery. The BC Hydro-owned DC charger he had been counting on was out of order, forcing him take a detour where he cooled his heels at a motel that offered a much slower, level-two charger -- meaning hours of delay. Drivers want to know that they will not, like Mr. Qualey, be stuck on the road with a dead battery. In B.C. there are roughly 1,300 level-two charging stations, which are relatively cheap to install. The coveted fast-charge stations are, however, largely a monopoly of BC Hydro.