City of Montreal amps up electric car charging network
50 new charging stations will be installed across 7 boroughs
The City of Montreal is giving its electric vehicle charging network a big boost.
Fifty new charging stations will be installed across seven boroughs. The new stations will provide 100 spots for drivers to charge their electric vehicle.
The new stations will be installed in the following boroughs:
- Côtes-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (9).
- Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve (7).
- Plateau Mont-Royal (7).
- Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie (8).
- Le Sud-Ouest (7).
- Verdun (4).
- Villeray-Saint-Michel-Parc-Extension (8).
The city said it plans to have 1,000 stations installed across all boroughs by 2020.
It's not the first time this year that Montreal announced it would be adding more charging stations.
In August, Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre said the city would be installing 25 stations in the downtown core.
These new stations come in addition to 80 others which were installed under a Hydro-Québec program in the parking lots of arenas, libraries, community centres and other municipal parking lots.
According to the city, Montreal is the first metropolis in Canada to have a network of charging station this size available to residents and car-sharing services.
As of August 2016, there were 1,468 electric vehicles registered in Montreal according to documents from the Quebec association of Electric Vehicles.