EV Ready and EV Infrastructure Rebates for Stratas, Apartment Building Owners, and Property Managers

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.

To get started download our checklist!

EV Ready Checklist-201221.pdf

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/

Why should you take this opportunity to upgrade your building?  It's expensive, but...

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.

British Columbia leads the way on progressive By-laws supporting EV Charging

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)