It was minus-20 degrees with drifting snow on February 22 at noon. In a Steinbach parking lot in front of MP Ted Falk’s constituency office, a group of eight fully electric vehicles (EVs) and their passengers gathered. Among them were Trevor Kirczenow and Blair Mahaffy, both of whom ran against Falk in the last federal election, Kirczenow for the Liberals and Mahaffy for the Greens.