Ottawa
A new audit of Canada's national program to install charging stations for electric vehicles says it is too concentrated in a small number of provinces and has no data to show where the biggest gaps are.
Another report says the federal government has set lofty targets for converting its own vehicle fleets to electric, but the departments with the most vehicles are not making the transition fast enough.
Environment Commissioner Jerry DeMarco published the two reports today along with several other audits of Canada's environment policies.
DeMarco says the Zero Emission Vehicle Infrastructure Program paid for nearly 34,000 charging ports as of last July, but almost nine in 10 were in Ontario, Quebec or British Columbia.
He also says the program isn't monitoring how well the stations are operating after they are installed.
DeMarco says Canada wants eight in 10 of its federal fleet vehicles to be electric by 2030, but as of March 2022, only 586 of more than 17,000 vehicles had been replaced with electric models.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 7, 2023
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