The Connecticut Department of Transportation recently submitted a plan to the U.S. Department of Transportation, establishing the state’s National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program.
The plan, Connecticut’s Charging Ahead Plan: A Strategy to Expand Public Electric Vehicle Charging, includes details on how the state aims to contribute to the national build out of electric vehicle (EV) chargers.
The federal NEVI Program provides $5 billion in formula funding over five years to states to award grants to private, public, and nonprofit entities to build, own, maintain and operate chargers. The grants pay up to 80 percent of eligible costs for charging infrastructure, which must be located within one mile of federally approved designated corridors. Chargers must be spaced less than 50 miles apart.
During phase one of Connecticut’s NEVI Plan, the state will build up to 10 locations consisting of at least four individual public DC fast chargers.
There are more than 25,000 EVs registered in Connecticut. Over the last year, more than 10,800 new light-duty EVs were registered in Connecticut, a more than 9,700 increase from the previous year, according to the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles.
Connecticut has set the goal of 125,000 to 150,000 EVs on the road by 2025.