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The electric car you can’t buy or lease
By Stephanie Wallcraft
Despite rock-bottom borrowing rates on gas-powered cars, automakers hike up leasing and financing rates on hard-to-find EVs

	2020 Education and Youth Issue The electric car you can’t buy or lease Despite rock-bottom borrowing rates on gas-powered cars, automakers hike up leasing and financing rates on hard-to-find EVs By Stephanie Wallcraft

	Transportation Post-pandemic, Canadians will need rail to get moving A jobs-rich rail innovation strategy will help get our economy back on track By Josipa Petrunić and Walter Kinio

	Transportation Will the cycling boom be a lasting side effect of pandemic? The humble bicycle has become one of the few winners in the COVID-19 lockdown By Rick Spence

	Transportation Assume EVs are pricier? Our latest showdown proves otherwise We pit Kia Niro and Tesla Model 3 EVs against gas competitors on total cost of ownership By Stephanie Wallcraft

	Transportation Electrifying car-sharing could spark green tipping point Incentivizing EV car-sharing fleets could drive down Canada’s emissions and make EV access more equitable By David Punch

	Planning for a green recovery CK TV: Watch our roundtable on Building Back Better with a Green Mobility Wave

	Transportation Roundtable: Canada needs to ramp up EV strategy – and make transit free More made-in-Canada EVs, support for green freight and a year of free transit could turn Canada from a laggard to a leader By Shawn McCarthy

	Planning for a green recovery Building Back Better with a green mobility wave The third white paper in our green recovery series examines what policies are needed to create jobs via greener transport By Ralph Torrie and Céline Bak

	Planning for a green recovery Revving Canada’s economy with zero-emissions freight With 10% of our emissions coming from freight, targeted federal support for ZEV trucks can future-proof the sector By Carolyn Kim

	Planning for a green recovery It’s time Canada caught the electric bus While Canada is home to four prominent electric bus makers, our fleets have been slow to adopt these climate change fighters By Merran Smith and Sarah Petrevan

	Planning for a green recovery Souping up the Trans-Canada highway with ultra-fast EV chargers If Canada is going to meet its ZEV sales targets, it needs to put ultra-fast Trans-Canada charging network in top gear By CK Staff

	Transportation How EV production can help refuel Canada’s post-pandemic economy Auto sector is now retooling to make life-saving ventilators, but to thrive post-COVID, revving EV production will be key By Carolyn Kim and Ben Sharpe

	2020 Global 100 Issue Hydro-Quebec plugs into China’s EV push Canada’s largest power utility pins big hopes on growth opportunities beyond its border By Shawn McCarthy

	2020 Global 100 Issue The EV revolution will take batteries, but are they ethical? How automakers can clean up the dirty minerals that power them in the global race to electrify cars By Adria Vasil

	Transportation The man of wind, water and sun Go-to lawyer for renewable economy is driving EV push at old GM plant By Gideon Forman

	Transportation Capital Plan for Clean Prosperity: How greening transport can boost economy and curb GHGs Clean transport stimulus plan could generate up to 232,000 new jobs and slash emissions by 20 megatonnes By Laura Väyrynen

	Transportation Ex-Purolator CEO steers car-sharing towards low-carbon future Patrick Nangle walked away from CO2-heavy parcel delivery sector to get more Canadians test-driving car-sharing model By Roberta Staley

	2019 Best 50 Issue Car-free cities are picking up speed Oslo, London, Berlin and even Toronto are among a growing list of cities paving the way for cleaner commutes By CK Staff

	Transportation Sharing the road: Which Canadian cities are driving progress on shared mobility? Municipalities need to take the wheel to steer towards the best green outcomes possible By Sandra Phillips

	Transportation The 2018 Canadian Clean Cars Guide Determining the top-rated vehicles through a sustainability lens By Peter Gorrie

	Transportation Off to work Making the commute easier for employees By John Lorinc

	Transportation Car trouble Why EPA’s U-turn on auto efficiency rules gives China the upper hand By Greg Dotson

	Transportation Retooling the suburbs A discussion with urbanist Markus Moos about suburban ways of living in 21st century Canada By Jeremy Runnalls

	Transportation Safer streets Portland will reduce residential speed limits to 20 miles per hour By Angie Schmitt

	Transportation Heroes & zeros: Loblaw and Rio Tinto Loblaws moves towards 100 per cent electric trucks, while former Rio Tinto executives are charged with fraud. By Bernard Simon