The state secured over $70 million in federal funding to design and build out an electric vehicle charging network in a state with often vast distances between destinations.
The Arizona Department of Transportation is gearing up to boost the state’s growing electric vehicle charging network, with $76.5 million in federal funds coming the state’s way over the next three years. As of 2021, Arizona had 1,952 public charging ports, compared to California’s 34,185.
According to Hailey Forbis of KTAR, the state’s plan “calls for electrical vehicle charging stations to be placed either upgraded existing stations and eventually new stations no more than 50 miles apart initially on the interstate system in Arizona,” according to an ADOT spokesperson. Two exceptions are stations in Interstate 8 and Interstate 40 that would be 70 miles apart.
Addressing concerns about straining the power grid, “Nick, the ADOT spokesperson, said Arizona’s major power producers have been brought into the conversation to make sure there will be ample power as transportation electrifies.”
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