Ontario Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca announced the provincial government’s new Workplace Electric Vehicle Charging Incentive Program January 16, while visiting the Electric Vehicle Discovery Centre in Toronto.
The province will assist employers and commercial building owners that wish to offer electric vehicle charging for their employees or tenants by helping with the cost of installing charging stations. The program is designed to support Ontario’s “ongoing work in communities across the province to increase the number of electric vehicle charging stations and make it easier for people to use electric vehicles.”
The Workplace Electric Vehicle Charging Incentive Program will provide 80 per cent of the capital costs to install level 2 chargers, up to $7,500 per charging space. Applications opened on January 16, and will be reviewed and processed in the order they are received, until the program funding is exhausted.
Level 2 charging stations use a 240 volt system (similar to a clothes dryer plug) and can fully charge a vehicle from zero in about 4 – 8 hours.
It is estimated there are over 1,300 public chargers available in Ontario, including chargers not funded under the Electric Vehicle Chargers Ontario program. Ontario’s Electric Vehicle Charging Incentive program has provided incentives worth approximately $2.2 million for the installation of almost 2,600 home charging stations since January 2013.