Charging infrastructure proposal details released

[The Electric Duo]

These details were released today. As a reminder, the Administrator has asked that we refrain from politics. But, I think it is probably safe to talk about the details of the plan since it will affect our ownership of the Mach-E.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...ces-electric-vehicle-charging-infrastructure/



FACT SHEET: Biden Administration Advances Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure
APRIL 22, 2021 • STATEMENTS AND RELEASES
Department of Transportation, Department of Energy, and General Services Administration Announce New Actions to Accelerate Deployment of Electric Vehicles and Chargers

Today, the White House announced new progress on the Administration’s goal to accelerate and deploy electric vehicles and charging stations, create good-paying, union jobs, and enable a clean transportation future. This includes actions by federal agencies:

• The Department of Transportation announced guidance on how grants can be used to deploy charging infrastructure and newly designated alternative fuel corridors;
• The Department of Energy announced new funding and partnerships for charger-related research and development; and
• The General Services Administration announced progress on the goal to transition the federal fleet to zero-emission vehicles.

In March, the United States passed the milestone of 100,000 public chargers (as recorded by the Department of Energy’s Alternative Fuel Data Center) and these new actions will accelerate deployment to make driving an electric vehicle convenient in every part of the country.
To discuss today’s announcements, National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visited new, fast-charging facility near Union Station in Washington, DC. The charging stations were installed by an American-based company EVGo and enable EV users to recharge rapidly when away from home.
Most electric vehicle drivers will charge at home and work. One of the perks of driving an electric vehicle is never needing to go to the gas station. But public charging infrastructure will provide a key role for people without off-street parking and for longer trips. A robust, convenient, and affordable network of public chargers will increase confidence for drivers that they will always have a charging option when they need it.
President Biden’s American Jobs Plan includes a transformational $15 billion investment to fund this vision and build a national network of 500,000 charging stations. Through a combination of grant and incentive programs for state and local governments and the private sector, it will support a transformational acceleration in deployment of a mix of chargers in apartment buildings, in public parking, throughout communities, and as a robust fast charging along our nation’s roadways.
Charger installation and maintenance creates good-paying, union jobs right here in America that cannot be outsourced, and the American Jobs Plan also includes incentives to bring more charging equipment manufacturing to the United States. Every element of the plan will promote strong labor, training, and installation standards. The Biden Administration is committed to promoting high quality jobs, fair wages, and safe working conditions through its investments. This means holding both public and private recipients of federal funding accountable to create and support good middle-class jobs. Industry, unions, state, and local governments, higher education institutions like community colleges, and nonprofits will need to work together to prepare workers for the job opportunities these investments will create.

Keep reading at:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...ces-electric-vehicle-charging-infrastructure/

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[ChasingCoral]

These details were released today. As a reminder, the Administrator has asked that we refrain from politics. But, I think it is probably safe to talk about the details of the plan since it will affect our ownership of the Mach-E.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...ces-electric-vehicle-charging-infrastructure/



FACT SHEET: Biden Administration Advances Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure
APRIL 22, 2021 • STATEMENTS AND RELEASES
Department of Transportation, Department of Energy, and General Services Administration Announce New Actions to Accelerate Deployment of Electric Vehicles and Chargers

Today, the White House announced new progress on the Administration’s goal to accelerate and deploy electric vehicles and charging stations, create good-paying, union jobs, and enable a clean transportation future. This includes actions by federal agencies:

• The Department of Transportation announced guidance on how grants can be used to deploy charging infrastructure and newly designated alternative fuel corridors;
• The Department of Energy announced new funding and partnerships for charger-related research and development; and
• The General Services Administration announced progress on the goal to transition the federal fleet to zero-emission vehicles.

In March, the United States passed the milestone of 100,000 public chargers (as recorded by the Department of Energy’s Alternative Fuel Data Center) and these new actions will accelerate deployment to make driving an electric vehicle convenient in every part of the country.
To discuss today’s announcements, National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visited new, fast-charging facility near Union Station in Washington, DC. The charging stations were installed by an American-based company EVGo and enable EV users to recharge rapidly when away from home.
Most electric vehicle drivers will charge at home and work. One of the perks of driving an electric vehicle is never needing to go to the gas station. But public charging infrastructure will provide a key role for people without off-street parking and for longer trips. A robust, convenient, and affordable network of public chargers will increase confidence for drivers that they will always have a charging option when they need it.
President Biden’s American Jobs Plan includes a transformational $15 billion investment to fund this vision and build a national network of 500,000 charging stations. Through a combination of grant and incentive programs for state and local governments and the private sector, it will support a transformational acceleration in deployment of a mix of chargers in apartment buildings, in public parking, throughout communities, and as a robust fast charging along our nation’s roadways.
Charger installation and maintenance creates good-paying, union jobs right here in America that cannot be outsourced, and the American Jobs Plan also includes incentives to bring more charging equipment manufacturing to the United States. Every element of the plan will promote strong labor, training, and installation standards. The Biden Administration is committed to promoting high quality jobs, fair wages, and safe working conditions through its investments. This means holding both public and private recipients of federal funding accountable to create and support good middle-class jobs. Industry, unions, state, and local governments, higher education institutions like community colleges, and nonprofits will need to work together to prepare workers for the job opportunities these investments will create.

Keep reading at:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...ces-electric-vehicle-charging-infrastructure/

I wonder what differentiates a ready EV Corridor from a pending EV Corridor? Based on my Maryland to SW Florida road trip, I drove some corridors marked as pending that seemed to have about as many EV chargers as some I drove that are marked as ready.

 

[malba2366]

Hopefully they are not pushing a government owned charging network as that will quickly turn into a poorly maintained system with no accountability...imagine trying to call some government office for a billing issue or a non working charger. Also, placing l2 chargers in apartment buildings and in other public places won't work because there is no guarantee that a user will get a charger spot when they need one. Gasoline vehicles or using l3 chargers are simply the better options for those people who can not get charging in their homes.

 

[timbop]

I have a really bad feeling they'll put in a ton of 62kw EVGO stations, which will ultimately DETER BEV adoptions because no one wants to sit charging for over an hour for every 2 to 3 hours of driving

 

[jwhamlin244]

Hopefully they are not pushing a government owned charging network as that will quickly turn into a poorly maintained system with no accountability...imagine trying to call some government office for a billing issue or a non working charger. Also, placing l2 chargers in apartment buildings and in other public places won't work because there is no guarantee that a user will get a charger spot when they need one. Gasoline vehicles or using l3 chargers are simply the better options for those people who can not get charging in their homes.

I believe these are grants and incentive programs. Grants for local govts to invest in the necessary public infrastructure, and incentives (similar to the way we have a $7500 credit) for private companies to build public charging points

 

[generaltso]

I wonder what differentiates a ready EV Corridor from a pending EV Corridor? Based on my Maryland to SW Florida road trip, I drove some corridors marked as pending that seemed to have about as many EV chargers as some I drove that are marked as ready.

Good question. There are roads marked as ready in Vermont that have no fast charging at all. They show one going down the western side of the state that doesn’t even corollate to an existing highway.

 

[Kamuelaflyer]

These details were released today. As a reminder, the Administrator has asked that we refrain from politics. But, I think it is probably safe to talk about the details of the plan since it will affect our ownership of the Mach-E.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...ces-electric-vehicle-charging-infrastructure/



FACT SHEET: Biden Administration Advances Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure
APRIL 22, 2021 • STATEMENTS AND RELEASES
Department of Transportation, Department of Energy, and General Services Administration Announce New Actions to Accelerate Deployment of Electric Vehicles and Chargers

Today, the White House announced new progress on the Administration’s goal to accelerate and deploy electric vehicles and charging stations, create good-paying, union jobs, and enable a clean transportation future. This includes actions by federal agencies:

• The Department of Transportation announced guidance on how grants can be used to deploy charging infrastructure and newly designated alternative fuel corridors;
• The Department of Energy announced new funding and partnerships for charger-related research and development; and
• The General Services Administration announced progress on the goal to transition the federal fleet to zero-emission vehicles.

In March, the United States passed the milestone of 100,000 public chargers (as recorded by the Department of Energy’s Alternative Fuel Data Center) and these new actions will accelerate deployment to make driving an electric vehicle convenient in every part of the country.
To discuss today’s announcements, National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visited new, fast-charging facility near Union Station in Washington, DC. The charging stations were installed by an American-based company EVGo and enable EV users to recharge rapidly when away from home.
Most electric vehicle drivers will charge at home and work. One of the perks of driving an electric vehicle is never needing to go to the gas station. But public charging infrastructure will provide a key role for people without off-street parking and for longer trips. A robust, convenient, and affordable network of public chargers will increase confidence for drivers that they will always have a charging option when they need it.
President Biden’s American Jobs Plan includes a transformational $15 billion investment to fund this vision and build a national network of 500,000 charging stations. Through a combination of grant and incentive programs for state and local governments and the private sector, it will support a transformational acceleration in deployment of a mix of chargers in apartment buildings, in public parking, throughout communities, and as a robust fast charging along our nation’s roadways.
Charger installation and maintenance creates good-paying, union jobs right here in America that cannot be outsourced, and the American Jobs Plan also includes incentives to bring more charging equipment manufacturing to the United States. Every element of the plan will promote strong labor, training, and installation standards. The Biden Administration is committed to promoting high quality jobs, fair wages, and safe working conditions through its investments. This means holding both public and private recipients of federal funding accountable to create and support good middle-class jobs. Industry, unions, state, and local governments, higher education institutions like community colleges, and nonprofits will need to work together to prepare workers for the job opportunities these investments will create.

Keep reading at:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...ces-electric-vehicle-charging-infrastructure/

Interesting. The Hamakua Coastal road and the cross island road road are both on that map as EV corridor ready.

 

[The Electric Duo]

I wonder what differentiates a ready EV Corridor from a pending EV Corridor? Based on my Maryland to SW Florida road trip, I drove some corridors marked as pending that seemed to have about as many EV chargers as some I drove that are marked as ready.

In the report linked in the release, it says:

The FHWA designates EV corridors with public DC fast charging stations as:
• Corridor ready with EV charging stations located no greater than 50 miles apart and no greater than 5 miles off the highway, and

• Corridor pending with some EV charging stations, but not at the right frequency or locations to fully meet the standard of “corridor ready.”

 

[The Electric Duo]

I have a really bad feeling they'll put in a ton of 62kw EVGO stations, which will ultimately DETER BEV adoptions because no one wants to sit charging for over an hour for every 2 to 3 hours of driving

In the PDF report that they mention, they call 50kW chargers "older" and 150kW as "State-of-the-Art" so maybe they do get it.

 

[Mirak]

So you won’t be able to get a grant if you don’t use union labor?

 

[The Electric Duo]

So you won’t be able to get a grant if you don’t use union labor?

It doesn't look like that is actually in the criteria anywhere. A lot of the grants will be funneled into existing programs that will be distributed down to state, county, and municipal governments. These entities won't actually be doing the work but contracting with companies to do it. Many companies use union labor for construction and electrical work. That's where the part about "union jobs" comes in. It isn't a requirement and it isn't guaranteed, but more than likely it will be a lot of union jobs.

 

[Jimrpa]

I have no problem with doing and supporting basic R&D and supporting the development of a high-quality, competitive EV infrastructure market, including chargers. If providing some form of “kickstart incentives” will get Wawa to put in DCFCs, then, sure. And let Wawa figure out who they want to have an exclusive partnership with, just like they do with PNC for ATMs, or maybe they go private label, just like they do with gas.
Not sure I’m really in on governments building and operating too much end point infrastructure. I can see a role for government in building the transmission infrastructure (equivalent to the interstate highway system).

 

[The Electric Duo]

More than likely, the way this will work is like other transportation projects are currently built. Looking at some of the programs, they require the charging stations to fit into your state's overall transportation plan. The grants usually aren't just a handout of federal dollars with no criteria. They will have to meet the overall goal of creating corridors for example. They will also have other requirements like - has to be accessible to everyone, local funding requirements (i.e. local sources makeup 75% and the feds will kick in 25%).

I was involved in some transportation projects a few years ago for the city I live in. We wanted to widen a major thoroughfare in the city. It involved approving it at the city level, getting the regional council of governments to include it in their planning, and then having the state add it to the state's transportation plan. Adding those parties meant the project had to include specifics for connectivity, usage, traffic counts, environmental impact, and most importantly a large chunk of city dollars committed to the project. It took awhile but the regional and state governments ended up paying about 20% and then federal government about 15% and the city paid the rest.

In Colorado, the state has been working with local governments already to install fast charging stations throughout the state. They are only 50 to 80 kW stations connected to ChargePoint. But they are in more remote areas that are important to the states tourism industry. I stopped at 2 of these in one of my videos. One was in Fairplay (aka South Park), a town of 800. It was located in the parking lot of city hall. Another was in Carbondale and was just along the street. In the case of Fairplay, I bet it helped tremendously for a town of that size to have some technical and financial assistance to install the charger. And because of the charger, they have people like me that stop in the town for a bit. And more importantly, it allows people like me to travel to the many areas around Fairplay that are popular for hiking, camping, etc.

 

[pdxzzr]

Hopefully they are not pushing a government owned charging network as that will quickly turn into a poorly maintained system with no accountability...imagine trying to call some government office for a billing issue or a non working charger.

Can I introduce you to the Blink network ... ?

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