Electrify Canada is a corporation formed by

Electrify America Electrify America, LLC is an electric vehicle DC Fast Charge, DC fast-charging network in the United States, with more than 950 stations and over 4,250 DC fast charging connectors . It is a subsidiary of Volkswagen Group of America, established ...

and

Volkswagen Group Volkswagen AG (), known internationally as the Volkswagen Group, is a German public multinational conglomerate manufacturer of passenger and commercial vehicles, motorcycles, engines and turbomachinery. Headquartered in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxon ...

to build

electric vehicle An electric vehicle (EV) is a motor vehicle whose propulsion is powered fully or mostly by electricity. EVs encompass a wide range of transportation modes, including road vehicle, road and rail vehicles, electric boats and Submersible, submer ...

(EV) direct current (DC)

charging infrastructure A charging station, also known as a charge point, chargepoint, or electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE), is a power supply device that supplies electrical power for recharging plug-in electric vehicles (including battery electric vehicle ...

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of coun ...

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Electrify Canada was established by

and

in 2018. While Electrify America was originally formed due to the

Volkswagen emissions scandal The Volkswagen emissions scandal, sometimes known as Dieselgate or Emissionsgate, began in September 2015, when the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a notice of violation of the Clean Air Act to German automaker Vol ...

settlement, Electrify Canada was a strategic decision to support VW's EV Sales in the country. The company opened its first charging station in September 2019. The company has over 100 chargers at 30 charging stations across New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan as of March 2024. Electrify Canada stations offer charging speeds between 150 kW to 350 kW. The company offers both Combined Charging System ( CCS) and

CHAdeMO CHAdeMO is a electric vehicle charging, fast-charging system for battery electric vehicles, developed in 2010 by the CHAdeMO Association, formed by the Tokyo Electric Power Company and five major Japanese automakers. The name is an abbreviation o ...

connectors at their charging stations. In 2023 the company announced it would begin offering

Tesla Tesla most commonly refers to: * Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), a Serbian-American electrical engineer and inventor * Tesla, Inc., an American electric vehicle and clean energy company, formerly Tesla Motors, Inc. * Tesla (unit) (symbol: T), the SI-d ...

North American Charging System The North American Charging System (NACS), standardized as SAE J3400, is an electric vehicle (EV) charging connector standard developed by Tesla, Inc. and maintained by SAE International. Tesla introduced the physical connector design with the ...

connectors, in addition to the existing connectors, by 2025. In December 2023, Electrify Canada announced it would begin billing users by

kWh A kilowatt-hour (unit symbol: kW⋅h or kW h; commonly written as kWh) is a non-SI unit of energy equal to 3.6 megajoules (MJ) in SI units, which is the energy delivered by one kilowatt of power for one hour. Kilowatt-hours are a common b ...

instead of by the amount of time used.

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