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Reporting on key policy issues regarding Canadian federal, provincial, and municipal governments toward the adoption of electric and autonomous transport and new mobility services.

Parliamentary Secretary Julie Dabrusin

Ottawa unveils national mandate to enforce ZEV sales targets

The long-awaited federal ZEV sales mandate for light-duty vehicles will require auto makers and importers to meet ZEV sales quotas aligned with federal targets — 20 per cent in 2026, 60 per cent in 2030 and 100 per cent in 2035
Commercial Electric and Zero Emission Vehicles, Electric Vehicle Policies Canada, Electric Vehicles Canada, EV Rebates, Incentives & Funding
Electric car plugged in outside house on street with a sunset

Federal action plan shows how Canada’s ZEV policies will reduce transportation-related emissions

The Action Plan for Clean On-Road Transportation assembles existing policy puzzle pieces to show how ZEV sales targets, rebates and funding programs are creating a pathway to clean vehicles, in support of Ottawa’s overall 2050 net-zero pledge
Commercial Electric and Zero Emission Vehicles, Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure, Electric Vehicle Policies Canada, Electric Vehicles Canada, EV Rebates, Incentives & Funding, Public EV Charging
Caravan or convoy of trucks in line on a country highway

Federal government doubles down on funding programs to decarbonize Canada’s medium- and heavy-duty sectors

The call for proposals for both the Green Freight Program and the Zero-Emission Vehicle Awareness Initiative will go toward decarbonizing larger classes of vehicles in Canada’s transportation sector
Education, Electric Vehicle Policies Canada, EV Rebates, Incentives & Funding, Heavy Duty EVs, Incentives & Funding, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
Arctic energy alliance public EV charging port

Northwest Territories tackles EV affordability, access to charging in new action plan

Over $2.26 million from the N.W.T.’s latest Energy Action Plan will go towards initiatives including new rebate programs for e-bikes, snowmobiles and electric boats as well as charging infrastructure across the territory
Electric bikes, Electric Boats, Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure, Electric Vehicle Charging Networks, Electric Vehicle Policies Canada, Electric Vehicles Canada, EV charging in condos and MURBs, EV Rebates, Incentives & Funding
Image of Volkswagen Group CEO Oliver Blume, Volkswagen technology chief Thomas Schmall and Canada's minister for Innovation, Science and Industry, François-Philippe Champagne.

In latest meetings with German automakers, industry minister Champagne touts Canada as “the logical choice”

Speaking to reporters amid meetings with Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and BMW, federal industry minister François-Philippe Champagne says “decarbonization” of Canada’s supply chain is a key selling point
Electric Vehicle Policies Canada, Electric Vehicles Canada, EV Battery Supply Chain, EV Manufacturing, EV Supply Chain
bar graph showing vehicles registered by fuel type

Just 1 per cent of vehicles on Canadian roads are zero-emission, new StatsCan data shows

A new StatsCan publication of annual light- and medium-duty vehicle registrations through 2021 puts the current number of ZEV registrations in Canada relative to the total fleet in perspective
British Columbia B.C., Commercial Electric and Zero Emission Vehicles, Electric Vehicles Canada, Ontario, Prince Edward Island (PEI), Quebec, Yukon