Ontario to spend $285-million on electric vehicles and free electricity for charging

In its $7-billion Climate Change Action Plan, Ontario will invest $285-million on electric vehicles by 2025.

In the The Globe and Mail’s article Ontario to spend $7-billion on sweeping climate change plan, we can read the details about the $285-million investments towards electric vehicle by 2025 :

• $285-million for electric vehicle incentives :

• These include a rebate of up to $14,000 for every electric vehicle purchased;
• up to $1,000 to install home charging;
• taking the provincial portion of the HST off electric vehicle sales;
• an extra subsidy program for low– and moderate-income households to get older cars off the road and replace them with electric;
• and free overnight electricity for charging electric vehicles.
• The province will also build more charging stations at government buildings, including LCBO outlets, and consider making electrical vehicle plug-ins mandatory on all new buildings.
• The plan sets targets of expanding electric vehicle sales to 5 per cent of all vehicles sold by 2020, up to 12 per cent by 2025, and aiming to get an electric or hybrid vehicle in every multivehicle driveway by 2024, a total of about 1.7 million cars.