Trudeau expected to make electric vehicle infrastructure announcement – Truck News

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to be in Victoria today for a visit where he is expected to highlight investments in electric vehicle infrastructure. The 2022 federal budget included several financial commitments to promote the uptake of zero-emission vehicles, complete with targets that apply to new vehicle sales. The budget noted the Canada Infrastructure Bank will invest £500 million in large-scale urban and commercial ZEV charging and refueling infrastructure.

And over the next five years, Natural Resources Canada will use another £400 million to help deploy ZEV charging infrastructure in sub-urban and remote communities.

The federal government wants zero-emission vehicles to account for 35% of new medium- and heavy-duty truck sales by 2030.

One in five new cars will need to meet that emissions standard by 2026, with that light-duty sales target expanding to 60% by 2030.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Lion Electric's Quebec production facilities in 2020. (File photo: Lion Electric)