In keeping with United States President Joe Biden’s commitment to begin construction of a national network of 500,000 electric vehicle chargers by 2030, the US Department of Transportation’s Federal Administration announced that it has proposed standards for chargers funded under the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program.
These minimum standards will help ensure their EV charging network is user-friendly, convenient, affordable, reliable, and easily accessible for a wide variety of drivers and vehicles in the United States.
The standard also establishes strong labor requirements for installation, maintenance, and operation to improve the safety and reliability of charging station functionality and use, and to create and support high-paying, high-skilled jobs in communities across the country.
“To support the transition to electric vehicles, we must build a national charging network that makes charging as easy as filling up at a gas station,” said US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
According to Buttigieg, these new ground rules will help create a nationwide network of EV chargers that is convenient, affordable, reliable, and accessible to all Americans.
This standard would require stations to offer enough ports to rapidly charge EVs simultaneously at 150kW or higher, and use the CCS plugs often found in universal chargers. Using NEVI, Biden hopes that the program will spur EV adoption to the point of 50 percent of new electric vehicle sales by 2030.
