August 9, 2024 – Awareness campaigns, buying guides and demonstration projects are among the latest initiatives to split $7.5 million in funding from Natural Resources Canada’s Zero-Emissions Vehicles Awareness Initiative (ZEVAI).

Of the $7.5 million in total funding, $4,236,774 is earmarked for medium- to heavy-duty vehicle (MHDV) initiatives and $1,947,928 forn light-duty vehicle (LDVs) initiatives (with $1,321,750 slated for clean fuels e.g. hydrogen).

NRCan says the projects will help address challenges related to awareness, knowledge, confidence and adoption of ZEVs, lower-carbon trucks, and clean fuels through outreach, education, and capacity-building activities.

The MHDV and LDV funding recipients include:

$300,000 – City of Edmonton
$300,000 – City of Calgary
$300,000 – Canadian Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium (Toronto)
$300,000 – Community Energy Association (Vancouver)
$300,000 – Transportation Energy Institute (Nepean, Ont.)
$300,000 – Edmonton Global (Edmonton)
$299,902 – ECO Canada Calgary, AB
$299,374 – Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (Edmonton)
$295,000 – Trucking Human Resource Sector Council (Truro, N.S.)
$289,992 – The University of Manitoba (Winnipeg)
$250,000 – GreenLearning Canada Foundation (Drayton Valley, Alta.)
$248,000 – Parvasi Sahayta Foundation (Mississauga, Ont.)
$241,575 – HUB Cycling (Vancouver)
$225,061 – Northern Centre for Advanced Technology Inc. (Sudbury, Ont.)
$225,000 – Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (Vaughan, Ont.)
$212,750 – FPInnovations (Pointe-Clare, Que.)
$205,500 – Coopérative de Solidarité Carbone-Coop Carbone (Quebec)
$205,000 – Electric Mobility Canada (Ile des Soeurs, Que.)
$200,000 – The Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development (Calgary)
$192,500 – Newfoundland Power (St. John’s, N.L.)
$174,292 – McMaster University (Hamilton, Ont.)
$161,127 – Newcom Media Inc. (Toronto, Ont.)
$150,000 – The Transition Accelerator (Calgary)
$112,500 – City of Saskatoon
$100,000 – Ecohive Inc. (Toronto)
$92,779 – Clean Nova Scotia Foundation (Dartmouth, N.S.)
$83,150 – Clean Energy Canada (Burnaby, B.C.)
$75,000 – The Pollution Probe Foundation (Toronto)
$46,200 – The Corporation of the County of Dufferin (Orangeville, Ont.)

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