JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The government is sending Florida millions of dollars to build new electric vehicle charging stations.
The goal is to address a serious complaint among the growing number of EV drivers out there: charging stations aren’t as readily available as gas stations.
Nearly $40 million in funding for the Sunshine State will help change that and some of that money will go to two projects in Northeast Florida.
Through the “Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Program,” the city of Jacksonville and Florida State College at Jacksonville will receive $2.8 million to install 100 EV chargers in public areas and on campus.
The city of Gainesville will also get $11.7 million to deploy 47 new EV charging stations across the city.
The overall goal is to meet the growth of the EV market.
The accounting firm PWC says there’s a shortage of fast chargers in Florida. It says the charging market would need to grow tenfold to meet the need for an estimated 27 million EVs on the road by 2030.
The Biden administration has set a goal to build half a million publicly available EV chargers nationwide by 2030. Right now, there are just over 200,000.
It’s unclear how this goal might change under the second Trump administration.