Recharge Maine, a statewide initiative to expand the availability of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure on Maine’s highways and within communities, will be awarding more than $6 million in National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Program funds.
Grants will support the development of new chargers at seven sites spanning Bangor to Augusta, and a stretch of U.S. Route 1 between Ellsworth and Freeport.
Recharge Maine, through a separate competitive solicitation, awarded Maine Jobs and Recovery Plan funding for five bidders that will extend the charging network along the most traveled routes to the Crown of Maine and to the Eastern border with New Brunswick.
All chargers will be in operation next year.
The awards are part of a state plan to improve its public fast-charging network.
Maine will receive approximately $18 million from the NEVI Formula program over the next several years.
“This funding will help expand our state’s EV charging network, reducing range anxiety for EV users who live, work, and travel in Maine,” Bruce Van Note Maine Department of Transportation commissioner, said.
Recharge Maine has awarded funding for 395 charging ports at 136 locations statewide, including 46 DC fast charge ports on Alternative Fuel Corridors and 349 Level 2 publicly accessible community ports.