Delaware Receives Federal Funds to Build out its EV Infrastructure

­The U.S. is doing everything possible to build out its electric vehicle infrastructure, and Delaware has recently jumped aboard the gravy train, to the tune of $17.5 million in federal funds.

We’d previously mentioned how the Biden Administration set an ambitious goal of 500,000 publicly available EV chargers by 2030. Towards that end, the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (aka, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law included the Department of Transportation’s new Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Discretionary Grant Program, which pledged $2.5 billion over five years for cities, counties, local governments, and Tribes to build out the EV infrastructure.

And the infrastructure ambitions of “The First State” follow along in this manner.

To whit, the Delaware General Assembly earmarked $4 million from its bond towards up to a dozen new charging sites, with an additional $17.5 million coming from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program.

“Investments in electric vehicle infrastructure are investments in a cleaner future. Federal programs like the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program will help more Delawareans and Americans make the shift to electric vehicles,” said US Senator Tom Carper, Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee. 

According to Electrive.com, the end goal is a netwoek of EV charging stations along the major travel corridors of Route 13, Route 113, Route 1, and Interstate 95, with the first two scheduled to be in Camden and Harrington.