An equitable clean transportation future includes expanding freight corridors and EV charging infrastructure in underserved communities.

President Biden’s goals of building out a national network of 500,000 EV chargers got a boost with the announced funding to accelerate the creation of zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) corridors that expand the nation’s electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. 240v Ev Charging Cable

The Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $7.4 million to seven projects to develop medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicle (EV) charging and hydrogen corridor infrastructure plans that will benefit millions of drivers across 23 states.

“A clean transportation sector requires vast investments across the entire industry, including to decarbonize the trucks that move our goods and building more charging ports to get those trucks from coast to coast,” said U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm. “President Biden’s historic clean energy laws are making it possible for us to get more EVs on the road by expanding charging infrastructure into underserved communities, while reducing range and cost anxiety among drivers who want to go electric.”

The projects will advance the President’s decarbonization goals by accelerating the deployment of medium- and heavy-duty EV charging and refueling infrastructure to reduce emissions from freight corridors and the depots, ports, and other facilities those corridors service. The freight corridors include those serving Northern and Southern California, the Eastern Seaboard, the Northeast, Southwest, and much of the Midwest.

Selected projects support DOE’s Justice40 priorities by demonstrating the impacts and benefits of these freight corridors plans on underserved communities. The projects would also help improve air quality in underserved areas of major American cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, San Francisco, Oakland, and Salt Lake City.

The Joint Office of Energy and Transportation issued a funding Notice of Intent to address challenges to achieving an equitable clean transportation future. The funding is expected to expand charging infrastructure in underserved communities.

These announcements will help companies implement the requirements included in the recently published minimum standards developed by DOT with DOE input for federally funded EV infrastructure. They will also support the forthcoming $2.5 billion in competitive grants to build alternative fueling infrastructure in communities across the United States.

The combined measures will move the U.S. closer to achieving the goal of 500,000 EV chargers along with the plan for half the new light-duty vehicles sales being electric by 2030 and a net-zero emissions economy by 2050.

Learn more about the selected Vehicle Technologies Office projects here and the Joint Office intended funding here.

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