SoCal city gets $14 Million grant to build 101 EV chargers

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SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY – The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) announced, January 10, its Round 2 recipients of the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) grant. The department awarded the City of San Bernardino $14 million to create 101 electric vehicle (EV) chargers. 

FHWA said they awarded $635.69 million in grant funding to 49 applicants to deploy publicly accessible EV charging and alternative fueling infrastructure in the places people live and work – urban and rural areas alike. 

Installing EV chargers at 15 municipally-owned locations

According to FHWA, the City of San Bernardino, in partnership with Uplift San Bernardino, will receive nearly $14.1 million to create its first public charging network.

The city will install EV chargers at 15 municipally-owned locations, including parks, community centers, a library, City Hall, the Police Department, and several downtown parking locations. 

All sites will include Level 2 and DC fast chargers, in addition to chargers for e-bikes and e-scooters.

California has 31% of all public EV charging stations in the U.S.

According to the Pew Research Center, California has the most EV charging infrastructure of any state. 

They said the state contained 31% of all public EV charging stations in the U.S as of May 2021.

“Despite having the most charging stations of any state, California’s 43,780 individual public charging ports must provide service for the more than 1.2 million electric vehicles registered to its residents. That works out to one public port for every 29 EVs, a ratio that ranks California 49th across all 50 states and the District of Columbia,” said the report.

There were five other CFI grant recipients in California that will install over 600 additional EV chargers across the state.

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