Environment committee  Not to pick on California again, but California, as Mr. Smith has mentioned, has been a real pioneer since the nineties, and Norway as well. They've taken a different approach where they've included a lot of tax credits and subsidies. That approach works in that environment and t

Environment committee  Just to clarify, is it vehicle emissions regulations?

Environment committee  Yes, I agree.

Environment committee  Right now, station owners are limited to charging per minute, and because vehicles draw different amounts of power over the same period of time, we're essentially having a cross-subsidization situation. Two vehicles might pull in. The station might have the same level of power, b

Environment committee  I was just noting that, in addition to the technical side, there are the regulatory aspects of the Electricity and Gas Inspection Act that have obligations that make sense for one-way flow of energy from meters owned by the utility and individual homes, but now we have station ow

Environment committee  I think it's a mixed approach. We're looking at a new paradigm of fuelling. People don't drive to a location to fuel. They fuel where they park. Gas stations along highway corridors have that infrastructure. We also need to look within city contexts, our homes and our workplaces,

Environment committee  With respect to electric vehicle charging and specifically to regulations around measurement and how we enable energy-based pricing, as I mentioned in my opening remarks, Measurement Canada has engaged in a process to help enable energy-based pricing that will involve two things:

Environment committee  First of all, the Electricity and Gas Inspection Act, as my colleagues from the Canadian Electricity Association referred to in a past session, was not designed with charging stations in mind. There's the technical side where we need specifications for how we certify those meters

Environment committee  Thank you. We are already seeing that vehicle batteries are getting bigger and have longer ranges. There are a number on the market that are 500-plus kilometres. More availability is going to be key for those areas with longer ranges. In the area you're talking about, it's reall

Environment committee  Thank you for that question. You make a very good point in terms of the critical importance of having access to reliable charging and that most charging happens at home. If there is not reliable access at home—and it's difficult, as you said, if you live in a multi-family buildi

Environment committee  There's one standard on the level two side. All vehicles can use that, and Tesla has an adaptor. On the fast charging side, you're right, there are three main standards. One that is proprietary to Tesla, and two that are used by different vehicle manufacturers. Our stations typic

Environment committee  It would be about $300 to $500 to install, and then the station itself would cost $1,000. That's for the smart connected charging stations that help utilities manage the grid and help reduce costs in terms of managing that additional load, especially at the local distribution lev

Environment committee  That's correct. NRCan has estimated that it's 2¢ or 3¢ per kilometre to fuel with electric.

Environment committee  On the installation side, the average cost to install in a home is between $300 to $500. For commercial and multi-family, it could be between $5,000 and $7,000. That's just the installation. The charging station itself at home is about $1,000. On the commercial side you're rangin

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