Georgia’s multiyear plan to spend $135 million in new federal funding to boost electric vehicle charging will focus on the state’s rural and underserved communities, where fast public charging can be hard to come by.
But many details – such as where exactly the chargers will go and what private groups might partner with the state to build them – remain to be settled.
The money is part of the $5 billion in federal funding that was packed into last year’s $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill with the purpose of building a national network of a half million electric vehicle charging stations by 2030.
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