Did Your City Receive 2025 Grant Funds To Build Charging and Refueling Infrastructure?

[eddiet1212]

Did Your Area Receive Funds from the $635 Million to Continue Expanding Zero-Emission Charging and Refueling Infrastructure?

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) announced $635 million in grants to continue building out electric vehicle (EV) charging and alternative fueling infrastructure with funding from the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act (IIJA). The grants fund 49 projects in communities across 27 States, four Federally Recognized Tribes, and the District of Columbia

FHWA Awards $635 Million to Continue Expanding Zero-Emission Charging and Refueling Infrastructure · Joint Office of Energy and Transportation

New investments will add more than 11,500 electric vehicle charging ports and expand alternative fueling infrastructure nationwide

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A full list of grant recipients can be found at the below link

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The number of public EV chargers has topped 206,000. According to the DoT, this means that the U.S. is anticipated to hit its goal of building out 500,000 public EV chargers before its original timeline of 2030—assuming progress either stays the course or picks up during the second half of the decade. In Q3 2024, the U.S. was deploying more than 1,000 new EV chargers every single week. That type of rapid progress helped the U.S. in doubling the number of available fast chargers in under five years.

Significant gaps in the charging infrastructure still remain—hence the push for a half-million EV chargers over the next five years. 49 projects do not seem like a lot for $636 million.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimates that by 2030 there will be 33 million EVs on the road and 28 million EV charging ports will be needed to support them.

Sounds like additional justification to order a Harvester range extended Scout....

 

[Jrgunn5150]

People who passed that bill, beyond the profit to their donors motive, fail to realize most charging is done at home.

If they're going to build out a network, it should be at all the Buccees and Sheetz on the interstates, not next to the 17 dollar fair trade coffee haus downtown.

 

[J Alynn]

People who passed that bill, beyond the profit to their donors motive, fail to realize most charging is done at home.

If they're going to build out a network, it should be at all the Buccees and Sheetz on the interstates, not next to the 17 dollar fair trade coffee haus downtown.

Yes and no. The general consensus here is when you travel you try to charge when you stop to eat. I’ve often thought Cracker Barrel would be a great location for chargers. On the east coast there seems to be one every 20 miles or so. Stop for affordable food and charge while dining. As for overpriced coffee that funny-especially as I don’t drink it. That said, I’ve learned Starbucks baristas seem to spend 20 minutes making a coffee so between making and drinking that would be a charge timeframe

 

[bb00799]

If you read through that list a lot of these locations are at municipally-owned locations like "parks, community centers, a library, City Hall, the Police Department, and several downtown core parking locations" or at shared locations like retail, multi-family properties (hello charging at home if you rent), car sharing spaces, curbside spaces, public lots.

EV charging should be done where you live and work most of the time. I wish my work had EV charging, why a location that employs 30k engineers and techs doesn't have EV charging is a little beyond me.

 

[Jrgunn5150]

Yes and no. The general consensus here is when you travel you try to charge when you stop to eat. I’ve often thought Cracker Barrel would be a great location for chargers. On the east coast there seems to be one every 20 miles or so. Stop for affordable food and charge while dining. As for overpriced coffee that funny-especially as I don’t drink it. That said, I’ve learned Starbucks baristas seem to spend 20 minutes making a coffee so between making and drinking that would be a charge timeframe

I agree with the stop and eat while charging.

However, the only time we've had to recharge away from home is when we've gone on road trips, which is why Buccees for example is appealing, we plug in, go inside for 30-40 minutes and roam and gawk and shop and potty and eat, and we're good to go for another 200 miles. Cracker Barrels and other things, also, very much.

When we go out to eat, to an event, to work... Our little town is 35 miles one way from the larger cities of Grand Rapids or Lansing, we just go back home, no charging needed.

Adding chargers in downtown areas means adding congestion to me, and in the specific use case of Scout's, means navigating small and tight down town areas with larger vehicles, and potentially trailers.

 

[J Alynn]

I agree with the stop and eat while charging.

However, the only time we've had to recharge away from home is when we've gone on road trips, which is why Buccees for example is appealing, we plug in, go inside for 30-40 minutes and roam and gawk and shop and potty and eat, and we're good to go for another 200 miles. Cracker Barrels and other things, also, very much.

When we go out to eat, to an event, to work... Our little town is 35 miles one way from the larger cities of Grand Rapids or Lansing, we just go back home, no charging needed.

Adding chargers in downtown areas means adding congestion to me, and in the specific use case of Scout's, means navigating small and tight down town areas with larger vehicles, and potentially trailers.

I see your point. My guess some of the downtown is to cover those who rent. That said, in larger metros many people don’t use cars regularly so it does make me scratch my head a bit.
As I’m PA we have Sheetz and Wawas but no Buc-ees but I get where you are going with your thought. I just despise the idea of hanging out at a gas station for 25-40 minutes. On interstates putting them at the rest stops makes sense too. They don’t have gas there so having electric would reduce congestion and a rest stop-to me, is more relaxing-at least based on the ones on I-95.
Ultimately they need to create a nationwide network that allows points every 1/2 hour on any given major route. Let the oil companies start adding at stations as well and then we all win. It’s obviously most EV buyers biggest concerns so let’s solve that hurdle first. Sweden and the Nordic countries seem to understand the value of infrastructure

 

[Jrgunn5150]

My guess some of the downtown is to cover those who rent.

Renters are a real pickle, because renters in metro areas, owning and using vehicles, would be key EV demographics. Yet, somehow, EV charging doesn't seem to be an urban rental amenity, and you'd think when they're offering parking for 100 a month or whatever, at least 10% of those spaces would have charging.

 

[J Alynn]

Renters are a real pickle, because renters in metro areas, owning and using vehicles, would be key EV demographics. Yet, somehow, EV charging doesn't seem to be an urban rental amenity, and you'd think when they're offering parking for 100 a month or whatever, at least 10% of those spaces would have charging.

Agree. I’m seeing more in Philly but assuming with people commuting 45 minutes into the city they want to charge to go home on occasion so it makes sense but urban has to be very well thought out. Where are renter who have cars and renters that generally don’t as well as aforementioned commuters coming in to urban centers

 

[Chaz26]

Renters are a real pickle, because renters in metro areas, owning and using vehicles, would be key EV demographics. Yet, somehow, EV charging doesn't seem to be an urban rental amenity, and you'd think when they're offering parking for 100 a month or whatever, at least 10% of those spaces would have charging.

I think there should be some consideration into just offering 110V outlets at a lot of apartment parking spaces in these large cities. The people in them are most probably not doing large commutes out of the city every day so it would be a cheaper way to allow people like this to get 10-12 kW of energy into the battery overnight, which for a lot of city folk might be enough day to day. Then they'd only have to use public fast chargers for weekends and longer trips etc. Same thing for places like airports, if you're away for 5+ days, no need for 240V level 2 chargers, just have hundreds of level 1 charging options and everyone should be able to come back to close to full battery if they're away for more than 3-4 days.

 

[illspirit]

Scout Motors needs to be ultra innovative and have charging drones that can be summoned as needed and dock on the roof as you're traveling down the highway to charge on the go.

 

[J Alynn]

I think there should be some consideration into just offering 110V outlets at a lot of apartment parking spaces in these large cities. The people in them are most probably not doing large commutes out of the city every day so it would be a cheaper way to allow people like this to get 10-12 kW of energy into the battery overnight, which for a lot of city folk might be enough day to day. Then they'd only have to use public fast chargers for weekends and longer trips etc. Same thing for places like airports, if you're away for 5+ days, no need for 240V level 2 chargers, just have hundreds of level 1 charging options and everyone should be able to come back to close to full battery if they're away for more than 3-4 days.

That’s a brilliant approach! ️

 

[HKsMike]

There's a lot of good points in this thread, but my standard position is let the market drive charging locations. Looking at the FHWA article, I question the locations that were highlighted. My trips to NJ and western PA from northern VA didn't lead me to believe there was much of an issue charging, at least on the routes I travelled. Also, will the 112 chargers on the Cherokee Nation lands see much use? My gut says"no" (but I could be wrong). Granted, I would love to see more chargers in MT (didn't see any on the list) so when I make my annual pilgrimage to the Big Horn River (fishing) and Kalispell (parents) I could take the Tesla vs my gas sucking pickup.

 

[Harris005]

Did Your Area Receive Funds from the $635 Million to Continue Expanding Zero-Emission Charging and Refueling Infrastructure?

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) announced $635 million in grants to continue building out electric vehicle (EV) charging and alternative fueling infrastructure with funding from the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act (IIJA). The grants fund 49 projects in communities across 27 States, four Federally Recognized Tribes, and the District of Columbia

FHWA Awards $635 Million to Continue Expanding Zero-Emission Charging and Refueling Infrastructure · Joint Office of Energy and Transportation

New investments will add more than 11,500 electric vehicle charging ports and expand alternative fueling infrastructure nationwide

driveelectric.gov

A full list of grant recipients can be found at the below link

Adobe Acrobat

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The number of public EV chargers has topped 206,000. According to the DoT, this means that the U.S. is anticipated to hit its goal of building out 500,000 public EV chargers before its original timeline of 2030—assuming progress either stays the course or picks up during the second half of the decade. In Q3 2024, the U.S. was deploying more than 1,000 new EV chargers every single week. That type of rapid progress helped the U.S. in doubling the number of available fast chargers in under five years.

Significant gaps in the charging infrastructure still remain—hence the push for a half-million EV chargers over the next five years. 49 projects do not seem like a lot for $636 million.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimates that by 2030 there will be 33 million EVs on the road and 28 million EV charging ports will be needed to support them.

Sounds like additional justification to order a Harvester range extended Scout....

Yeah, I saw this on the local news here in Kansas City the other day. I couldn't find the video of the one I watched, but this one is similar. I appreciated what the mayor was saying their goals with this funding would go to.

 

[Mousehunter]

No. Not a public charger in my county. But to be honest - my county does not have any major transit corridors (well apparently we do, but only for illegal activity - seems the interstates are patrolled more, so illegal activity gets rerouted through us). If I go a few miles north - there is a corridor and it has plenty of chargers.