About one month ago, it was announced that a little over 1,200 EV charging ports were installed in one project in British Columbia.
On the West Coast of the US, the state of California has over 201,000 EV charging ports operating, and that total does not include all the home EV chargers. A little over 140 EV charging ports were installed in a single project in the San Francisco Bay Area at one condo complex.
Going back to Canada, it was recently announced that SureCharge Corp. will install up to 96 fast-charging EV ports in Alberta and British Columbia.The technology utilized in the new EV charging project will be Wallbox’s Supernova 180 kW chargers. (It should be noted that about 98% of British Columbia’s electricity comes from clean or renewable sources. The same is not true in Alberta where fossil fuels are dominant but renewables are growing.)
Representatives of SureCharge Corp. answered some questions for CleanTechnica about the new chargers.
How many new charging locations will there be, and where will they be?
We are currently deploying between 21 and 24 charging locations in Phase One, supported under NRCan’s ZEVIP program.
Phase One locations include (in no particular order):
- Alberta: Red Deer, Lacombe, Enoch/Edmonton (River Cree), Rocky Mountain House, Drayton Valley, Edson, Hinton, Jasper, Whitecourt, Grande Cache, Valleyview, Grande Prairie, Longview, Diamond Valley, DeWinton, Langdon, Provost
- British Columbia: Sparwood, Fernie, Fort Nelson, Fort. St John
Additional phases are already in the planning stages and may come sooner than expected. We are also open to new site host partners — interested parties can reach us directly at info@surecharge.ca.
