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Electric fleets

Thinking about transitioning your fleet vehicles to EVs? Fleet electrification offers many benefits for your business. They also require careful planning to realize the benefits while maintaining the efficiency of your fleet.

To help with this planning, we've developed a fleet electrification guide. The guide can help you understand your EV options, as well as develop an implementation plan that works for you. We also offer an assessment service. This assessment will help determine how to set up your electrical infrastructure for EV charging.

Installing public chargers

Are you a municipality, First Nation, local government or commercial property owner that’s considering building a public EV charging station on your property?

We provide industry-focused information and resources to help create safe, usable and reliable public EV infrastructure in B.C.

Help for condos & stratas

We've created a step-by-step guide for getting EV charging infrastructure installed at multi-unit residential buildings. For help navigating your strata, check out how to request EV charging in your building or request support from an EV advisor. For further guidance, visit Metro Vancouver's site, evcondo.ca.

Learn about incentives for the installation of charging stations and related electrical infrastructure at multi-unit residential buildings.

See examples from stratas in B.C.

Learn how three stratas took three different approaches to adding EV charging to their multi-unit residential buildings.

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HOV lane

Get a sticker, use the HOV lane

Have you ever noticed the big white OK decals on EVs as they pass you in the HOV lane? If you own an EV in B.C., you can apply for an HOV lane/electric vehicle permit and decal from the Government of B.C. This permit allows you to drive your EV in HOV lanes even if it's just you in the car.

Increased system demand

Can the BC Hydro electrical system handle the increase in demand?

The increased demand from more EVs is something we've been planning for and will be able to supply. The estimated electrical demand for electric vehicles by 2030 is 1,300 gigawatt hours per year, which is about 2% of total demand. We’ve included electric vehicles in our load forecasting since 2011 and have carefully planned for their increased adoption. Our Integrated Resource Plan maps out different scenarios and the resources that will be used to meet the demand.

We regularly monitor our local distribution systems and upgrade them to meet new neighbourhood demand as a normal course of business. It’s also important to note that most home EV charging happens overnight, when electricity use is typically at its lowest, which helps manage overall demand.