The EV technician training program at southern Alberta’s largest technical institute has received a $850,000 donation from the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) to help ease the critical shortage of EV service technicians across the country.
RBC announced the donation at the Calgary-based Southern Alberta Institute of Technology’s transportation industry night March 23.
He also said the company hopes to boost the recruitment of women, who comprise just eight per cent of student technicians across Canada. “We have to make sure we are producing graduates who are able to repair all the vehicles on the road,” said Carpenter. The SAIT program typically has 350 students in either its technician diploma or apprentice programs at any given time, he said.
The federal agency said there were 3,084 auto service certificates granted to apprentices who completed their programs in 2020 – a 28-per-cent drop from the previous year. But Chu noted a career in auto service still carries a stigma. Her workplace, part of a national auto service chain, still has “older gentlemen” co-workers who don’t treat her as an equal, she said.
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