diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 196e6bf..e853b17 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ jobs:
         ember-try-scenario:
          - ember-babel-6
          - node-babel-6
+         - ember-2.0-babel-7
          - ember-babel-7
 
     steps:
diff --git a/config/ember-try.js b/config/ember-try.js
index 8c741a1..e6c2ccc 100644
--- a/config/ember-try.js
+++ b/config/ember-try.js
@@ -26,6 +26,22 @@ module.exports = function() {
           }
         }
       },
+      {
+        name: 'ember-2.0-babel-7',
+        bower: {
+          dependencies: {
+            ember: '~2.0.0',
+          },
+        },
+        command: 'ember test',
+        npm: {
+          devDependencies: {
+            'ember-source': null,
+            'ember-fetch': null,
+            'ember-data': null,
+          },
+        },
+      },
       {
         name: 'ember-babel-7',
         command: 'ember test',
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 10d7525..7bcc390 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -3,6 +3,20 @@
 const VersionChecker = require('ember-cli-version-checker');
 const extractTrueVersion = require('./utils/extract-true-version');
 const getFlags = require('./utils/get-flags');
+const fs = require('fs');
+const path = require('path');
+
+// from https://github.com/ember-cli/ember-cli-version-checker/blob/70c2d52cde964b1e8acd062411c9f1666180a52c/src/dependency-version-checker.js#L9
+function getVersionFromJSONFile(filePath) {
+  try {
+    // Use the require cache to avoid file I/O after first call on a given path.
+    let pkg = require(filePath);
+    return pkg.version;
+  } catch (err) {
+    // file doesn't exist or is not a file or is not parseable.
+    return null;
+  }
+}
 
 module.exports = {
   name: 'ember-compatibility-helpers',
@@ -16,6 +30,18 @@ module.exports = {
     this.projectChecker = new VersionChecker(this.project);
     this.emberVersion = this.projectChecker.for('ember-source').version;
 
+    if (!this.emberVersion) {
+      let bowerrcPath = path.join(this.project.root, '.bowerrc');
+      let bowerDirectory = 'bower_components';
+      if (fs.existsSync(bowerrcPath)) {
+        bowerDirectory = fs.readJsonSync(bowerrcPath).directory;
+      }
+
+      this.emberVersion =
+        getVersionFromJSONFile(path.join(this.project.root, bowerDirectory, 'ember', '.bower.json')) ||
+        getVersionFromJSONFile(path.join(this.project.root, bowerDirectory, 'ember', 'bower.json'));
+    }
+
     // Create a parent checker for checking the parent app/addons dependencies (for things like polyfills)
     this.parentChecker = new VersionChecker(this.parent);
     const emberBabelChecker = this.parentChecker.for('ember-cli-babel', 'npm');
diff --git a/tests/unit/gte-smoke-test.js b/tests/unit/gte-smoke-test.js
index bc17d2a..ef8b0a1 100644
--- a/tests/unit/gte-smoke-test.js
+++ b/tests/unit/gte-smoke-test.js
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ import { gte } from 'ember-compatibility-helpers';
 module('gte-smoke-test', function() {
   test('gte generally functions, and avoids an import error', function(assert) {
     assert.ok(gte('0.0.0'));
-    assert.ok(gte('ember-source', '0.0.0'));
+    assert.ok(gte('semver', '0.0.0'));
   });
 });