Green Commercial Vehicle Program

The province is helping Ontario businesses do their part to fight climate change with an enhanced program to 'green' commercial fleets. Under the four-year, $15-million Green Commercial Vehicle Program, companies can apply for grants to:

• Purchase hybrid and alternative-fuel vehicles; and,
• Retrofit heavy-duty vehicles with anti-idling technologies.

Up to one-third of the cost of the capital cost of eligible environmentally friendly technologies that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) and fuel consumption could be reimbursed. Fuel savings data collected by the program will help encourage more businesses to go green. Applications for the program were available November 28, 2008. The program is retroactive to August 2007, the launch date of the Go Green Action Plan.

Program Information

This website is organized into 6 sections:

• Section 1 provides an introduction to the Green Commercial Vehicles Project (GCVP);
• Section 2 outlines the challenges facing the Province with regards to Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change;
• Section 3 identifies the Environment-Friendly Green Technologies that are eligible for grants under GCVP;
• Section 4 lists a number of Quick Links to those Government websites that address environmental freight matters with a short description of what is included on those websites;
• Section 5 provides a number of Quick Links to Industry Association stakeholder websites along with a short description of what is included on those websites; and,
• Section 6 is a link to the news release.