New EV chargers announced for Quebec

Quebec is getting hundreds of new electric vehicle fast chargers, the federal government recently announced.

The $30 million investment will bring 1,500 chargers total with 400 of them fast chargers across the province.

The government’s announcement noted that almost 260,000 incentives to buy or lease a zero-emission vehicle have been provided to Canadians and Canadian businesses — with almost 137,000 of those coming from Quebec.

The money is being spread across 18 projects, including:

• $21.7 million to Hydro-Québec to install 1194 chargers, including 385 fast chargers
• $4.4 million to the Canadian National Railway Company to support 62 fast chargers at train stations across Canada, including 12 in Quebec
• $1.3 million to Les Pétroles R.L. Inc. to deploy 57 chargers across Quebec
• $375,000 to Bell Canada to install 75 Level 2 chargers at workplaces across the province
• $300,000 to Syndicat des copropriétaires Lowney sur Ville to install 60 Level 2 chargers in multi-use residential buildings in Montreal
• $133,775 to the Conseil régional de l’environnement et du développement durable de l’Outaouais to deliver 23 chargers across the Outaouais region
• $88,311 to the Montreal-Trudeau International Airport to support the installation of 31 EV chargers
• Funding to help install another 126 chargers across the province, all of which will be available by 2025

So far, 45,000 chargers have been installed across the country.