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Quebec Expands Fast-Charger Network
Canada’s Quebec province plans to create a network of fast-charge stations for battery-powered vehicles along a 360-mile highway corridor between Montreal and Mont-Joli.
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Canada’s Quebec province plans to create a network of fast-charge stations for battery-powered vehicles along a 360-mile highway corridor between Montreal and Mont-Joli.
The initiative kicks off this summer with the opening of three stations. Additional facilities, which are being built by Quebec-based AddEnergie, will be added later in the year. Each station costs about C$60,000 ($47,000), half of which will be subsidized by the government.
Quebec currently has about 800 publicly accessible charging points, including 32 fast-charge stations. A standard 240-volt facility costs users $1 per hour and takes 6 to 8 hours to fully recharge an EV battery, while the 400-volt fast-charge stations cost $10 per hour and can replenish 80% of the battery’s capacity within 30 minutes.
Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard announced the new program at the international Electric Vehicle Symposium being held this week in Montreal. The plan supports Quebec’s goal for a tenfold increase in the number of EVs and plug-in hybrids registered in the province to 100,000 vehicles by 2020.
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