The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration recently announced a $640,000 grant to the State of Nebraska to build electric vehicle charging stations.
A press release stated Lincoln will receive $640,000 to install 20 electric vehicle charging ports at five sites. The sites will include public parks, a library, an African American cultural center, and a multimodal transportation center. The project aims to provide charging access to 1,650 multifamily housing units within a 10-minute walk of the charging sites.
The grant is one of 49 projects that will deploy more than 11,500 EV charging ports and hydrogen and natural gas fueling infrastructure across 27 States, four federally recognized tribes, and the District of Columbia.
President Joe Biden set a goal of building 500,000 publicly available EV chargers by 2030. There are currently more than 206,000 publicly available EV charging ports with 38,000 new public chargers turned on in 2024 thanks to private sector investment, and a combination of direct federal funding, federal tax incentives, and state and local funding.
“The Biden Administration has made historic investments to support the EV transition and make sure it’s made in America,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a press release. “These investments will help states and communities build out a network of EV chargers in the coming years so that one day, finding a charge on a road trip will be as easy as filling up at a gas station.”
The press release stated the number of publicly accessible EV chargers has more than doubled since the start of the Biden Administration in 2021.