What is an EV Ready Plan?

An EV Ready Plan is a professional strategy for your building to make at least one parking space per residential unit EV Ready; a comprehensive assessment of your building and proposal created by certified electrical contractor.

A complete EV Ready Plan consists of a electrical capacity calculation and your buildings 12 month BC Hydro history. With this information we can assess how much electricity your building is currently using and how much capacity your building has for EV chargers.

Along with the above assessment, we provide a proposal and costs for the electrical infrastructure and EV charger installation costs so that you can apply to BC Hydro for all the newest construction rebates worth up to $97,000.

Once the plan is completed we help you apply for the EV Ready Plan incentive online to receive up to $3,000 or 75% of the cost to create the EV Ready Plan.

For more information call or email us and we’d be happy to help answer any questions you may have for your EV project!

INCENTIVES

Following the transition to a more green future and low carbon transportation options like electric vehicles (EV’s), the province of British Columbia is working with Fortis BC and BC Hydro to offer rebates across the province for the purchase and installation of Level 2 EV charging stations through the CleanBC program. Rebates are available for:

apartments and condo buildings:

There are two provincial rebate options to help apartment and condo buildings get ready to support EVs.

1. EV Ready rebates

For a limited time, the CleanBC program has increased its maximum contribution to:

  • EV Ready plan rebate: A rebate of up to $3,000 for the creation of an EV Ready plan – a professional strategy for your building to make at least one parking space per residential unit EV Ready.

  • EV Ready infrastructure rebate: A rebate of up to 50% of costs to install the electrical infrastructure required to implement your EV Ready plan, to a maximum of $600 per parking space, and a project maximum of $80,000.

  • EV charger rebate: A rebate of up to *$4,400 per charger (limited-time increase, regularly $1,400) to purchase and install Level 2 networked EV chargers to implement your building’s EV Ready plan, to a maximum of *$25,000 (limited-time increase, regularly $14,000)

2. Standalone EV charger rebate

EV charger rebate: A rebate of up to *$5,000 per charger (limited-time increase, regularly $2,000) to purchase and install Level 2 networked EV chargers at your building’s residential parking spaces, to a maximum of *$25,000 (limited-time increase, regularly $14,000).

Workplaces

Workplaces can get a rebate of up to *$5,000 per charger (limited-time increase, regularly $2,000) to purchase and install eligible Level 2 networked EV chargers for employee use, to a maximum of *$25,000 (limited-time increase, regularly $14,000). To be eligible, pre-approval from BC Hydro is required prior to purchasing and/or installing chargers.

Eligible workplace organizations can have separate applications for different locations, up to a maximum of four.