Québec EV charger rebate: what you can actually get

The Quebec EV charger rebate comes from a program called Écorecharge. It replaced the charger component of Roulez vert, and its rules changed in 2026. Enough that honest people lose their $600 by buying the wrong charger.

Everything below was checked against the program’s official pages on September 11, 2026. The rules change: check again before you spend money counting on an amount.

How much exactly

The $600 is a flat amount. It doesn’t go up if your installation costs $2,500 instead of $1,750, and it doesn’t go down either. There’s only one price condition: the charger itself must cost more than $600 before taxes.

What’s covered and what isn’t

This is the most expensive mix-up, and it fits in one sentence: the program pays for the device, not for the house that has to adapt to receive it.

The conditions that cost people the rebate

None of these conditions is a trick in itself. People miss them because nobody reads them before buying.

The charger must be connected

This is the biggest change, and the least known. Since April 1, 2026, only connected chargers are eligible: chargers that can receive, send and process commands remotely. A perfectly good charger with no connectivity no longer qualifies for anything.

It must be on the official list

The program publishes a list of eligible models. A model that isn’t on the list isn’t eligible, even if it checks every other box. Check the list before you buy, not after.

Level 2, 208 or 240 volts

The charger must allow Level 2 charging. A simple Level 1 cable plugged into a regular outlet isn’t eligible.

New, from a Canadian retailer

Purchase or long-term lease, with a 36-month minimum for a lease. A used charger, or one bought abroad, doesn’t qualify.

You must own the vehicle

When you apply, you must own your electric vehicle and the charger must be installed at your home. The invoices must be in the vehicle owner’s name.

Two date exclusions

• A charger obtained before January 1, 2024 isn’t eligible.
• Equipment acquired between February 1 and March 31, 2025 (the period when Roulez vert was suspended) isn’t eligible either.

How to apply

You apply after the work is done, online, with supporting documents. The rebate isn’t deducted from what you pay the electrician.

What you need on hand:

• The charger’s purchase invoice, in your name
• Proof of installation: the electrician’s invoice
• The vehicle identification number and the licence plate number

There’s no maximum delay between buying the vehicle and applying, but two things must still be true: you must still own the vehicle, and the program must still be running. That’s the only real reason not to wait.

What your city adds on top

Québec’s $600 isn’t always the last word. Nine municipalities in the region pay an extra amount, from $100 to $250, on top of the provincial rebate. You still have to know your city offers one, and apply in time.

The money runs out. Almost all of these cities write “until the budgeted funds run out.” Deux-Montagnes even puts a number on its envelope: $10,000 per fiscal year. A complete application doesn’t guarantee the money. It guarantees your file will be reviewed, if the budget isn’t already empty.

Deadlines are short, and different everywhere. 90 days in Blainville, three months in Saint-Eustache, six months in Terrebonne and Deux-Montagnes, 180 days in Boisbriand. In some cities the clock starts at purchase, in others when the work is finished. That’s the number one reason these amounts get lost: people find out too late.

You need a licensed contractor. Saint-Eustache, Boisbriand, Deux-Montagnes, Mascouche and Repentigny require it in black and white. Repentigny also asks for the certified electrician’s invoice, and Blainville strongly recommends a licensed electrician. A charger installed by a handy friend means the municipal rebate is gone.

Here are the 25 municipalities in the table, checked one by one on each city’s own website on September 12, 2026. Where a city publishes one, the amount links to its official page (in French).

The cities that give nothing

Checked one by one on each city’s own grant page, on September 12, 2026: Laval, Mirabel, Saint-Jérôme, Sainte-Thérèse, Rosemère, Longueuil, Brossard, Sainte-Adèle, Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Mont-Tremblant, Lachute, Sainte-Sophie, Montebello and Montréal’s Saint-Laurent borough. In these cities, the provincial rebate is the only one there is.

Two of them used to have one. Mirabel paid out more than 70 grants in 2019-2020, and Saint-Jérôme removed its assistance page. Both programs are over. If someone tells you otherwise, they’re reading an old list.

If you live in a multi-unit building

There are two components, and they aren’t for the same people.

You’re a tenant or a condo owner and you want your own charger in the parking area: up to $5,000 to buy and install an individual charger. That’s much more than the $600 for a house, because the installation is much heavier.

You own the building: the infrastructure component pays 50% of eligible expenses, up to $120,000 per building, before taxes. Oversizing the electrical panel is explicitly eligible. It’s the only program in Québec that directly pays for panel work.

The key condition: the work must make at least 50% of the spaces reserved for residents ready for a charger. Visitor spaces don’t count toward that threshold.

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