Retail

Customers shopping for groceries can now fill their carts and cars at the same time. Join Longo’s, charging provider Jule and the mastermind behind the EcoCharge network of 100+ fast-charging stations at IGA stores across Quebec and New Brunswick as they explain how the shopping and EV charging experience are a perfect match. They’ll discuss the many surprising benefits for grocers, from customer preference over competitors to back-up power for refrigeration and other critical store power systems when battery-buffered chargers are installed. You’ll also get the details on how these partnerships work, from funding and financing to installation and user experience.

In the near future, drivers will expect to top up their batteries on the go, much the way we plug in our cellphones or join a wifi network wherever we are. Providing public charging will become essential for shopping malls and office buildings to attract and retain customers, clients and commuters. What are the business models, partnerships and funding available to real estate owners and investors to get this off the ground and what are the best practices to run EV charging onsite?

The conversation around public charging tends to focus on it as an engineering problem. But for widespread adoption, we need to think about the human element. How do we design better charging sites and what can we learn from how EV drivers are using these plugs today? And what could the ultimate EV charging station of the future look like if we thought about this from the ground up? We’ll look at these questions with the country’s largest fuel retailer, Parkland Corporation, who will share what they’ve learned from their network of 50 EV charging stations across BC and Alberta – and leading Canadian architect Claire Weisz of WXY Studio, jury member for Electric Autonomy’s Electric Fuelling Station of the Future design competition.