32 NEVI-Funded DC Fast Charging Stations Are Now Open
With Tuesday’s opening of the Impower Connection site in Happy, Texas, by our tracking and analysis, there are now 32 NEVI-funded sites open to EV drivers, with a total of 135 ports. Eleven sites have opened in November, and a few more could potentially open before the calendar page turns to December.
With the exception of June this year, which saw four NEVI sites open, all other months have had no more than two sites open — until the current month of November. Since the first Pilot Travel Center site opened in Ohio last October, at least one new site has opened each month except for November 2023 and January 2024.
Ten states have at least one open NEVI-funded site for EV drivers, with Ohio lapping the field with 15 sites, including nine that opened just in November. New York (4) and Pennsylvania (3) are a distant second and third respectively. The remaining seven states have either one or two open NEVI sites.
It is no coincidence that the number of NEVI-funded sites opening has suddenly increased, and we expect to see double-digit openings each month going forward. To date, the overall average days to opening a NEVI site from the date awards were announced, is just under one year. However, recent site openings are averaging nearly 15 months from the awards date, aligning with when the first states began announcing NEVI awards to applicants in 2023.
Between July 2023 — when Ohio was the first station to announce NEVI awards — and the end of 2023, 11 states announced 228 sites had been awarded. Roughly 14% of these awarded sites are now open, so we should expect to see potentially dozens of them opening in the coming months.
Other highlights include:
- Pilot Travel Centers (which partners with EVgo Services) leads the pack, with 12 of the 32 open sites, followed by EVolve NY (which works with Electrify America) and Francis Energy each with four open sites.
- The average funding amount awarded across the 32 sites is $671,381 and $168,632 per port. If the four New York (NY) and single Vermont (VT) sites are excluded, the average funding per site is $760,526 and $187,823 per port. (NY and VT initially funded these sites through state programs so the costs are a bit lower than normal.)
- The average number of ports per site across the 32 sites is 4.2.
Stay tuned for upcoming posts on the status of the NEVI program, data, and analysis you won’t find anywhere else.
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By Loren McDonald - Chief Analyst, Paren
