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FHWA today announced the award of $635 million in grants “to continue building out electric vehicle (EV) charging and alternative fueling infrastructure.” The funding, made possible by USDOT’s Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Discretionary Grant Program and a 10 percent set-aside from the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program grants, will fund “49 projects that will deploy more than 11,500 EV charging ports and hydrogen and natural gas fueling infrastructure along corridors and in communities across 27 States, four Federally Recognized Tribes, and the District of Columbia.” (TRN inserted a link in quoted text.)

The announcement recaps progress made in expanding public EV charging capacity since the 2021 enactment of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). It notes the Biden administration “set a goal of building out 500,000 publicly available EV chargers by 2030 – and we are on track to achieve that goal early. As of today, there are more than 206,000 publicly available EV charging ports with 38,000 new public chargers turned on in 2024 thanks to private sector investment, and a combination of direct federal funding, federal tax incentives, and state and local funding.”