Expansion of Alaska's charging network for electric vehicles might happen faster than expected, thanks to $50 million from the federal infrastructure bill.
July 18, 2022The first phase of funding — from a Volkswagen settlement — covered installation costs for several chargers, like this one at Custom Seafood Processors in Soldotna.
Curtis Thayer, executive director of AEA, said Alaska is getting about $50 million of the $2.5 billion that’s reserved in the bill for states through the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program. AEA has already been working on a nine-charger corridor between Homer and Fairbanks. To date, funding for that project has come from a 2017 settlement with Volkswagen over a diesel emission scandal.
“Then, when we look at the Marine Highway System, now we can do this in Kodiak and Ketchikan and Juneau and Sitka and Valdez,” Thayer said.
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