A policy proposed by Vancouver city hall would charge gas stations and parking lots $10,000 per year for failing to provide charging stations for electric vehicles at their facilities. The proposal is aimed at speeding up the rollout of EV charging stations across the city in the hopes of encouraging more people to buy electric vehicles. “There would be an incentive to invest in EV charging to avoid the higher annual license fee,” staff wrote in the report. Businesses would have to make charging stations available by 2025 to avoid the increased license fee.
