Upwards of 100,000 new public charging stations need to be built across Metro Vancouver over the next 15 years in order to keep up with electric vehicle demand, a new report has found.
Light-duty vehicles, which include cars, light trucks and SUVs, currently account for a third of all Metro Vancouver’s greenhouse gas emissions, making them the largest source of the region’s carbon pollution. All of it will cost an enormous sum of money. Together with retrofitting the parking garages of old multi-family buildings, the build out of new public chargers is expected to cost between $2.1 billion and $2.9 billion by 2050.
Home charging important, but most still use public chargers Charging at home will play the largest role to support the electric vehicle transition, notes the report. A 2022 BC Hydro survey found 86 per cent of EV drivers charged their cars at home. But a similar portion said they also used public chargers.