Coming Soon! EV and E-bike Strategy

Staff are developing an EV and E-Bike Strategy for the District of Central Saanich. The strategy will lay out an action plan to meet the District’s target of seeing 4,800 electric vehicles (EVs) in Central Saanich within the next 10 years. A committee of well-informed community members and external stakeholders from the EV industry will provide recommendations on the draft EV and E-bike Strategy before it is presented to Council and the community later this year. The strategy will map out a path for Central Saanich to reach its recently adopted new climate action targets, which includes a 45% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 (compared to 2007); these targets are consistent with the recommendations of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The work will look at building requirements for charging and public charging infrastructure.

Currently, all development applications that are approved by Council are required to install electric vehicle charging infrastructure.