A pilot project to bring electric-vehicle charging stations to a handful of overnight on-street parking spots will quietly roll to city council. If the one-year experiment is approved by full council, charging stations will appear in Ward 19 Trinity-Spadina, Ward 30 Toronto-Danforth, and Ward 32 Beaches-East York. As of last year there were 1,600 electric vehicles in Toronto, a number expected to rise quickly. Commercial charging stations, primarily downtown, help out the others but roughly 53,000 Torontonians with on-street parking, rather than driveways, are largely frozen out of the electric vehicle revolution sweeping much of the world, the committee heard. His proposal, that users of the new charging stations bear all the costs of installation and operation, failed.

Source: thestar October 18, 2017 21:45 UTC