The accelerated and extensive build-out of electric vehicle charging infrastructure is prompting fresh conversations about their placement and the need for city-level resources.Forth, an Oregon-based electric vehicle research and advocacy group, has partnered with General Motors to develop “grant templates” to help organizations get access to the competitive grant money from federal or state sources later this year and early next year. The webinar was organized by Forth. “Having this tool will really help enable those communities get over a really big hump in that first sort of effort to get access to this money.”In addition, Forth is developing an online learning portal for communities without a great depth of charging infrastructure knowledge. The program will be initially available for one year, but could be extended.The development and adoption of EVs and the infrastructure they will need is hitting a stride never before seen. The federal infrastructure program will invest billions of dollars into building out a national EV charging network in the next four years.

Source: Forbes December 02, 2022 21:58 UTC