DOE Launches Workplace Charging Challenge
Thirteen major employers and eight stakeholder groups have joined the Department of Energy’s new Workplace Charging Challenge to help expand access to workplace EV charging stations for American workers across the country.
The initiative aims to increase the convenience of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) and provide drivers with more options. It’s a collaborative effort to increase the number of US employers offering workplace charging by tenfold in the next five years. The Challenge also supports the broader efforts of the Department’s EV Everywhere Grand Challenge, announced by President Obama in March 2012, to make PEVs as affordable and convenient for the American family as gasoline-powered vehicles within the next 10 years.
The following 13 companies pledge to assess workforce PEV charging demands, and then develop and implement a plan to install workplace charging infrastructure for at least one major worksite location:
- 3M
- Chrysler Group
- Duke Energy
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Ford
- GE
- GM
- Nissan
- San Diego Gas & Electric
- Siemens
- Tesla
- Verizon
Eight stakeholder organizations also have signed the Ambassador Pledge to develop and execute plans to support and promote the workplace charging initiative, including:
- California PEV Collaborative
- CALSTART
- Electric Drive Transportation Association
- Electrification Coalition
- International Parking Institute
- NextEnergy
- Plug In America
- Rocky Mountain Institute.
To support the partners and ambassadors who sign the pledge, DOE will provide technical assistance and establish a forum for partners and ambassadors to share information. The Energy Department also released the EV Everywhere Grand Challenge Blueprint, which describes PEV technology and deployment barriers, as well as steps to move forward in achieving the EV Everywhere goal.
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More variety of heavy inefficient vehicle in an even more complicated infrastructure is not the way to go. Smaller lighter faster and automated is though.
Are you saying that EV’s are complicated, inefficient, and that the infrastructure is not here?
Really.
Most every home or apartment has 240v in at least 2 locations!
I drive 100% electric @ 2cents a mile.
I have the latest GPS,MP3,and more and never opened the manual thats user friendly.