Simard Transport, a Montreal-area trucking and logistics company, has been operating since 1943. It provides transportation, warehousing and logistics services, with facilities near ports, airports and rail yards in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. Today, the company runs 12 battery-electric heavy trucks, just over three years since getting its first four Freightliner eCascadia trucks on the […]

Van Houtte Coffee Services’ fleet electrification didn’t start with a plan. It started with a phone call from a dealer. “He said, ‘I have my very first Ford E-Transit. What do you think?’ And we just jumped on the occasion,” said Kevin Rouleau-Thiboutot, director of fleet operations for the coffee distributor. That electric van arrived […]

In Quebec’s Lac-Saint-Jean region, a growing number of children ride to school without a whiff of diesel. Groupe Autocar Jeannois, a bus company based in Alma, runs an electric fleet of 33 school buses, two minibuses and a medium-duty truck. These are supported with 42 charging stations and a sophisticated charging ecosystem. Groupe Autocar Jeannois […]

The deal gives Canadian fleet operators local sales and service for the W56 Class 5-6 electric van, with expansion to Western Canada planned

Rebate volume dropped 14.3 per cent quarter over quarter, while the Chevrolet Bolt topped the list of most popular EVs for incentives