Written by Collins Eshiet | Edited by Cláudio Afonso
United States reached this week 200,000 public electric vehicle (EV) charging ports across the country, the US Joint Energy and Transportation Office announced.
Since late August, the U.S. has added 9,000 new charging ports resulting in a weekly rate of more than 1,000 public chargers.
Since the start of the Biden-Harris Administration, the number of publicly available EV chargers across has more than doubled, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.
“As we build out the EV charging network on our highways, we are also investing in local communities, rural, urban and tribal alike. Today’s grants are a critical part of ensuring every American can find a charger as easily as a gas station, which will decrease pollution from our roadways, lower costs for families, and help people get to where they need to go efficiently,” said U.S. Transportation Deputy Secretary Polly Trottenberg last August.
President Biden has committed to building 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations across the U.S. by 2030, a move the White House says will boost consumer confidence in buying and driving electric vehicles while reducing carbon emissions nationwide.
With the growth in the US EV market, there is a need for the expansion of the region’s EV charging stations to meet the demands of the population.
In order to meet this need, the US Department of Energy set up the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula (NEVI) and Electric Vehicle Charger Reliability and Accessibility (EVC-RAA).
The US Department of Transportation also set up the Charging and Fuelling Infrastructure (CFI), these programs help provide necessary funding for the expansion of Public EV Charging Stations in the US.
The funding gathered from these agencies not only helps to set up but also to maintain the 200,000 public EV charging ports that are currently available for use in the US.
Back in the month of August, the US Joint Office of Energy and Transportation launched a $150 million grant project to repair and replace over 4,500 EV charging ports around the country.
Written by Collins Eshiet | Edited by Cláudio Afonso
