“Having more city staff trained in the safety, maintenance and repair of electric vehicles is a priority both today and into the future as our electric vehicle fleet grows. “The City of Vancouver is committed to achieving carbon neutrality in its entire vehicle fleet by 2050,” said Cheryl Nelms, Acting General Manager, Engineering Services, City of Vancouver. Expanding the EV fleet is a key component of the city’s Climate Emergency Response, which has set a target of deriving 100% of energy used by the fleet from renewable sources before 2050. Vancouver has one of the largest Canadian municipal EV fleets, with 120 EVs in service.
The partnership has helped the city on its path to become one of the greenest cities in the world and has continued BCIT’s ongoing leadership in sustainability and training. By working with the city, BCIT was able to develop and test an EV curriculum with 12 Red Seal mechanics. With $325,000 in provincial funding through CleanBC, BCIT has completed the pilot of the program with the City of Vancouver’s green-fleet technicians.
This is an example of the thousands of new jobs and opportunities we’ll see under our CleanBC plan to boost the economy, reduce air pollution and make life more affordable.” So we’re going to need mechanics, and BC is the first province to offer this kind of training. BC has the fastest increase of EVs on the road, with 30,000 now. “This training program is a game changer and part of where the world is going as we switch to zero-emission vehicles,” said Michelle Mungall, Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources. Under government’s CleanBC plan, all new light-duty vehicles sold in BC by 2040 will be zero-emission vehicles. The newly developed EV Maintenance Training program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) will make sure the province’s workforce has the skills and training needed to support more electric vehicles on the road. With support from CleanBC, a new electric vehicle (EV) training program for automotive technicians has successfully completed its first pilot and is available to the public. Update March 29, 2021: EV skills training now available at three additional colleges.
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