Clean Transportation

A smarter approach to EV upgrades in buildings: What Quebec’s draft regulation gets right

5/2025 - Quebec is implementing a comprehensive strategy to upgrade multi-unit buildings to be EV-ready. Understand the incentives and how Ontario can support building owners and tenants to access EV charging at home.

Five things investors should know about commercial fleet electrification

4/2025 - Learn more about opportunities to support the electrification of Canada’s commercial trucks and vans including in manufacturing, battery innovation and major grid infrastructure investments.

The Atmospheric Fund invests in 7Gen to support fleet electrification

4/2025 - We made a $1,000,000 investment in Canadian company 7Gen to help electrify commercial vans and trucks, cutting 589,165 tonnes of carbon and improving air quality in the GTHA.

EV adoption hindered by PC policies that ‘deliberately increase carbon emissions’

2/2025 - THE POINTER - Ian Klesmer, Director of Strategy and Grants, told The Pointer that long-term investments will not only speed up EV adoption but also strengthen local supply chains, cut pollution, and increase affordability for low- and middle-income families.

Toronto Parking Authority begins operating its own EV charging network

4/2023 - Eight chargers in a single lot mark the start of a plan that will see the TPA — the largest parking operator of its kind in North America — install over 300 off-street and 100 on-street chargers by the end of 2023.

Bus Rapid Transit could combat rising emissions and increase well-being in Brampton

4/2023 - The key to achieving our 2030 climate targets is investing in public transportation.

Ambitious ZEV Strategy doomed without buy-in from provincial government

8/2022 - THE POINTER - "As the densest region after Toronto, Peel has an opportunity to reduce transportation emissions by building transit and electrifying transportation," reads TAF's Carbon Emissions Inventory.

Clean fuel regulations won’t reduce emissions as needed – what’s next?

7/2022 - After six years of work, it would be easy for climate advocates to feel frustrated about the missed opportunity of the Clean Fuel Regulations. But the regulations were just one opportunity to decarbonize. Get involved by urging government to follow through on two other upcoming federal policies to decarbonize transportation.

How this small Ontario city is leading on public EV charging

6/2022 - Perhaps surprisingly, Burlington, Ontario has more charging stations per capita than any other city in the GTHA, with over 30 public stations per 50,000 people. I interviewed Lynn Robichaud, Manager of Environmental Sustainability at the City of Burlington, about what it takes to lead on EV charging installation and management.

Forty-two electric vehicle charging stations to be built across Durham using federal funds

4/2022 - DURHAM RADIO NEWS - Durham Region will be partnering with TAF to promote EV charging. TAF will be offering rebates of up to 50 per cent for municipalities, parking authorities, non-profits, residential buildings and other groups to construct new charging stations.

If you rely only on public chargers, it’s tough to own an EV

3/2022 - THE GLOBE AND MAIL - TAF has recently received $2-million from Natural Resources Canada to install about 300 chargers, and expects a big chunk of that will go toward installing chargers on residential streets as well as near multi-unit residential buildings (MURBs).

Honda confirms plan to switch Ontario plant to hybrid vehicles

3/2022 - GLOBAL NEWS- The federal and provincial government are investing $130M each in updating Ontario’s Honda plat to produce hybrid-EVs.