A $1.44 million federal grant will allow North Dakota to put in extra electrical automobile charging stations and provides the state extra flexibility in the place they’re positioned.
The particular websites are nonetheless being decided however are prone to be away from the 2 interstate corridors in North Dakota.
The state Division of Transportation utilized for the grant in August 2021, in keeping with Deputy Director for Planning Jen Turnbow. That was earlier than the state was awarded $25.9 million from the Nationwide Electrical Car Infrastructure Components Program in June. That funding was by means of the federal infrastructure invoice that Congress handed final fall.
That program requires fast-charging stations to be put in alongside Interstates 94 and 29. The $1.44 million “could enable extra flexibility in electrical automobile charging areas throughout the state reasonably than the primary precedence,” Turnbow mentioned.
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North Dakota will obtain the $25.9 million by means of fiscal yr 2026. The primary part will construct chargers not more than 50 miles aside and fewer than a mile off exits alongside the interstates.
“It’s exhausting to put a quantity on what number of charging stations we will set up, for there are various various factors that may affect the quantity it can price to put in chargers at any given location,” DOT spokesman David Finley mentioned.
The Electrical Car Infrastructure Plan that North Dakota was required to create to get the $25.9 million is at www.dot.nd.gov/tasks/lrtp/evplan.htm.
The state is getting the $1.44 million by means of the Federal Freeway Administration’s Superior Transportation and Congestion Administration Applied sciences Deployment grant program, which goals to assist set up 500,000 electrical automobile charging stations nationwide by 2030.
Federal officers in saying the grant mentioned it’s to assist set up “extra charging stations to fill in gaps and cut back EV proprietor vary anxiousness.”