Travelers leaving from Montréal Metropolitan Airport, the Longueuil, Quebec, facility known by the code YHU, can now plug in before they fly: 120 electric-vehicle chargers are online there. Another 48 are planned once a building under construction is finished, which would bring the campus to 168 charging points. Wallbox, the Spanish charger maker that supplied the hardware, announced the installation on October 15, 2026.
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The chargers serve employees, visitors and airport operations rather than a single class of driver. That mix matters for a site where a traveler’s car may sit for days while the owner is away, and where staff vehicles sit for a full shift. The airport offers more than 2,600 parking spaces across short-, mid- and long-term lots, so the charger count covers a meaningful share of the spaces rather than serving as a token gesture. Electrek’s description of the site also notes that the units are managed centrally, which lets airport staff watch usage and handle payments from one system instead of visiting individual posts.
Wallbox Pulsar Pro hardware and its power-sharing design
According to Electrek’s report on the build-out, the units are Wallbox Pulsar Pro chargers, Level 2 stations with a maximum output of 11.5 kW per Wallbox’s listing. Level 2 is the slower tier, suited to long dwell times rather than quick top-ups, which is the sensible choice for a parking lot where a vehicle is expected to stay put for hours or days. Electrek did not report the actual charging speeds in service at the airport.
The feature the project partners singled out is power sharing. Solar Builder reported that the companies chose the Pulsar Pro because chargers grouped together can shift power among charging points, which keeps the site within its electrical capacity while still serving many cars at once. Without that balancing, 120 chargers all drawing full power at the same moment would demand a far larger electrical service than a parking lot normally has.
Wallbox’s own product material describes the mechanism. Its Pulsar Pro announcement says the charger balances power across up to 100 chargers for better grid management, and lists 4G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and OCPP connectivity, an RFID reader and an internal meter with less than 2 percent error. The separate North American launch release from March 2024 cites a limit of 50 chargers for its dynamic power sharing, a reminder that specifications differ by market and model.
The companies behind the Montréal install
Several firms shared the work. Wallbox supplied the chargers, Foresta’s software handles centralized charger management and payment processing, and edp électrique, a Quebec electrical products agency, coordinated integration, with EG Électrique and Westburne also involved. Solar Builder described the group as having developed the project together, and Electrek’s account matches that list of names.
Ignasi Alastuey, Wallbox’s chief business officer, said transport hubs such as airports are “an important part of the next phase of EV charging infrastructure,” according to the announcement as relayed by Solar Builder. His framing places the Montréal site in a wider push to move charging from homes and highway corridors into places where cars are parked for long stretches.
Sabryna Barabé-Favreau, a sales representative of electrical products at edp électrique, called the project a strong example of what close collaboration among all stakeholders can achieve. Her comment came in the same announcement. It is a fair summary of why an airport install is harder than a retail lot: electrical contractors, a distributor, a hardware vendor and a software provider all have to deliver pieces that work as one system on the day it opens.
What remains unannounced for the extra 48 chargers
The plan for 48 more depends on the building under construction, and Electrek noted that neither a completion date nor charging prices have been announced for those additions. That leaves open the questions a traveler would care about most, chiefly what a charging session will cost and whether parking fees and charging fees will be billed together through Foresta’s payment platform.
Other Level 2 hardware is chasing the same parking-structure market. Electrek wrote in August about Voltpost’s ceiling-mounted Air charger, which delivers up to 9.6 kW per port and is designed for garages, a sign that vendors see parking lots and decks as the next place chargers need to go.
For drivers of plug-in vehicles, the practical effect today is simple. A trip that begins at the airport no longer requires a plan for range on the return leg, at least where a space with a charger is available, and 120 existing units suggest the odds of finding one are better than at most airports. The final tally of 168 would, on the reported figures, put roughly one charger on every 15 or so of the 2,600-plus spaces, though the airport has not said how chargers are distributed among its lots.
This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Morning Overview editors prior to publication.
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