Sign up for Automotive News Canada Breaking Alerts and be the first to know when big news breaks in the Canadian auto industry.<\/a><\/p>\nEach site will be equipped with Wallbox\u2019s Supernova, the company\u2019s flagship public fast charger. It\u2019s designed to deliver up to 180 kW of power to support long-distance travel.<\/p>\n
A recent federal audit found that \u201cmany areas of the country still lacked access to public charging stations \u2026 including rural, remote, and Indigenous communities and lower-income areas.\u201d Furthermore, a survey conducted by the Canadian Automobile Dealers Association in February found respondents frequently cited cold weather \u201canxiety\u201d as a reason to forgo an EV purchase.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith this funding, Canadians traveling on Alberta and British Columbia highways will have access to more EV chargers where they need them most. These chargers give peace of mind to current EV drivers, and helps address charging anxiety for those considering an EV purchase in the near future,\u201d Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Tim Hodgson said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The chargers are being installed in a province that had one of the lowest ZEV uptakes in the country in the second quarter, according to the latest data from S&P Global Mobility. Battery-electric vehicles (BEV) in Alberta accounted for just 1.8 per cent of new-vehicle registrations in the quarter. B.C., meanwhile, saw BEVs earn 9.9 per cent of new registrations, behind only Quebec, where it was 11.8 per cent.<\/p>\n
The planned locations include some of the most remote locations in Alberta, including Grande Prairie, which is about 450 kilometres northwest of Edmonton. Jasper will also see EV chargers installed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis broad geographic footprint ensures coverage across northern, central, and southern Alberta \u2014 extending into remote and rural areas \u2014 while also supporting regional travel and tourism routes,\u201d Wallbox said in a statement.<\/p>\n
In B.C., chargers will be installed in Fort St. John, one of the most northern major cities in the province.<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources wasn\u2019t immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wallbox’s Supernova is the company\u2019s flagship public fast charger. It\u2019s designed to deliver up to 180 kW of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[903,49,48,8822,70671,51407,92309,44,14986,29866,92310,92308,13845,92311],"class_list":["post-183106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chargers","tag-charging-stations","tag-government-of-canada","tag-natural-resources-canada","tag-news","tag-public-spaces","tag-southern-alberta","tag-suretek-electric-technologies-ltd","tag-wallbox","tag-western-canada","tag-zero-emission-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}