On January 6, 2021 the Vancouver Electric Vehicle Association provided a webinar featuring representatives from Plug-In BC. A second round of EV Ready and Infrastructure rebates were announced by the BC Government in the spring of 2021, but the full potential of these rebates to upgrade your building for an EV future is not widely known. It is a budget and time limited offer, but learning the details now may enable buildings to get up to half of the costs of upgrading subsidized. This is world leading legislation to enable rapid adoption of electric vehicles for those people living in older MURBs that do not have all parking stalls energized, ready for electric cars. Program Link https://electricvehicles.bchydro.com/incentives/charger-rebates#Apartment%20and%20condo%20buildings Jan 6th, 2021 presentations and links below Please contact us if you would like to schedule another webinar on this topic, or others regarding electric vehicles. Contact us at mailto:stratacharging@veva.ca |
Materials and links from the webinar VEVA Overview Presentation Download PDF Plug-In BC Presentation Download PDF VEVA EV Ready Checklist Download PDF Webinar Recording Coming Soon EV Charging Rebates site https://goelectricbc.gov.bc.ca/ BC Hydro Alliance Referrals Link for Contractors more information below |
It's not glamorous. It is the infrastructure that enables you to go electric by simply plugging in a charger. But in order to do that, you need conduit, wiring and junction boxes that brings electricity to your suite's parking spot. With modern power electronics, any building can be upgraded to bring power to your parking stall, without having to upgrade the main power supply to your building. It's expensive to do this, but the EV Ready and EV Infrastructure program will cover up to half the costs. It's an unprecedented opportunity to upgrade your building, but it will require the approval of your owners for your share of the costs. And unfortunately this first time offer is time limited. We want to help you get this done.
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The government's news release focused on doubling of the charger rebates, up to $14,000. But this is not the big story. The big story is that they will also pay up to $83,000 to help buildings build the wiring backbone to support EV chargers for at least one parking stall for each suite in the building.
BC Government (MEMLCI) News Release of December 3, 2020
https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2020EMLI0062-001992
To learn more about the EV Ready and EV Infrastructure rebates, go to these sites, and why not join us at our Webinar on January 6th?
Go Electric Site - Clean BC
https://goelectricbc.gov.bc.ca/ (Go to bottom of the page)
Need to determine how your apartment or condo can support widespread EV charging?
Rebates are available to complete and implement an EV Ready Plan, including making residential unit parking stalls ready to support EV charging stations. Contact an EV Charging Station Advisor for guidance.
For BC Hydro customers:
https://electricvehicles.bchydro.com/incentives/charger-rebates
For FortisBC electricity customers:
http://fortisbc.com/electricvehicle
Recent Articles
Electric Autonomy: https://electricautonomy.ca/2020/11/06/ev-charging-in-condos/
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In most areas of BC all new buildings are required to be pre-wired for EV charging. That makes those buildings more attractive to an ever increasing number of condo home owners who want to drive EVs. Your buildings market value will be less without access to EV Charging. Ensuring that all suites are ready for EV charging enables every suite owner to benefit with increased market value. It's an investment that will pay back dividends, even before you start saving money by driving electric!
How much can you save per month driving an electric car? See this page.
BC Cities with bylaws for mandatory parking stall pre-wiring for EV charging in new developments.
There are 15 cities with a 100% 'energized' requirement representing 50% of the population of BC. (Note that the City of North Vancouver's bylaw states 20 % wired at time of commissioning, with capacity for the remaining 80% of parking stalls.)
Table 1: List of BC municipalities with EV-ready requirements for NEW multi-unit residential buildings
(MURBs)
Municipality |
Residential Requirement |
Policy type |
City of Burnaby |
100% energized |
Zoning bylaw 13903, No 24 |
District of Central Saanich |
100% energized |
Bylaw 2061, 2020 |
City of Coquitlam |
100% dwelling units energized |
Zoning bylaw 4897 |
City of Port Coquitlam |
100% “roughed in” |
Zoning bylaw 3630, No. 4035 |
Township of Langley |
100% energized |
Zoning Bylaw 2500 |
City of New Westminster |
100% energized |
Zoning bylaw amendment 8040 |
City of Maple Ridge |
100% “roughed in” |
Zoning Bylaw 4350 - 1990 |
City of Port Moody |
100% energized |
Zoning Bylaw 2937 |
City of Richmond |
100% energized |
Zoning bylaw 8500 |
District of Saanich |
100% dwelling units energized |
Zoning Bylaw 9627 and 9644 |
City of Surrey |
100% energized |
Zoning Bylaw 12000 |
City of Vancouver |
100% energized |
Building bylaw 10908 |
City of North Vancouver |
100% energized |
Zoning Bylaw 1995 No 6700 |
District of West Vancouver |
100% energized |
Bylaw 4662, 2010, Bylaw 5055 |
City of Victoria |
100% energized |
Bylaw 20-075 |