Vancouver is working hard to prepare their city for plug-in EVs. They currently have an agreement with Nissan to look at a project in the area (the first deployment location in Canada). Nissan will do one Canadian stop in Vancouver on their December traveling road show. Vancouver is also working with Mitsubishi to acquire EVs for various local fleets. The city is also working with Olympic partners to provide EVs to City officials. Finally Vancouver has applied to the federal government (with BC Gov’t and BC Hydro) to run a home/work/public charging pilot program over next few years.

Additionally Vancouver has made great strides to incorporate EV charging into its newest building codes. This includes specific guidelines for multi-family dwellings where 20% of parking stalls must have a charging receptacle and the electrical rooms must have enough space for the charging hardware required for 100% of these receptacles.

For any questions, contact Brian Beck at brian.beck@vancouver.ca. Also, be sure to check out http://www.vancouver.ca/sustainability.

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