State DOTs Continue Building EV Charging Infrastructure

Across the country, state departments of transportation continue to build out electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure, supported largely by funding provided from the federal National Electric Vehicle or NEVI formula program established four years ago.

[Above photo by TxDOT]

For example, using NEVI funds, the Texas Department of Transportation has built 14 EV charging stations, with 23 under construction and another 28 in the planning phase. Overall, TxDOT is planning have a total of 300 EV charging locations available for use this year.

“Alternatively fueled vehicle sales are breaking records,” said Michael Chamberlain, TxDOT’s Data Management Section director, in a statement. “But fortunately, Texas has the infrastructure and electric capacity to meet that demand for many years to come.”

He noted that, between July 2022 and the end of 2025, the number of EVs registered in Texas – including plug-in hybrids and fully electric vehicles – more than tripled to 456,667. Every week, TXDOT said the state sees an additional 1,500 EVs on the road, according to vehicle registration data from Alternatively Fueled Vehicle Report issued by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles.

In Pennsylvania, federal NEVI funds have helped the state open eight new EV charging stations since October – bringing the Commonwealth’s total number of NEVI-funded charging stations to 28.

Additionally, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation noted in a statement that it is “powering forward” with more investments through the NEVI program, beginning with the Corridor Connections Funding Opportunity, which was released in October 2025.

That funding round focuses on implementing EV charging stations along major roadways to strengthen long-distance travel beyond the previously designated Alternative Fuel Corridors, the agency said. Projects funded from the Corridor Connections program will improve range confidence for drivers who are considering travel with an EV across and throughout the Commonwealth, PennDOT added.

Meanwhile, the North Carolina Department of Transportation is planning to reallocate NEVI formula program funds from building EV charging stations along major interstates and highways to local communities, rural areas, and along highways where less EV charging coverage currently exists. The agency said it is making this shift due to new U.S. Department of Transportation guidance for the NEVI program issued in August 2025 that gives states greater flexibility to determine where EV charging stations can be placed. And in late November 2025, the Georgia State Transportation Board approved $24.4 million worth of grants to fund construction of EV charging stations statewide.

The Georgia Department of Transportation is overseeing the award of those grants – funded via the second round of NEVI program awards – to 26 locations through public-private partnerships or P3s that will support the construction and operation of new fast-charging stations along the state’s Alternative Fuel Corridors.

Selected private-sector partners will design, install, finance, operate and maintain stations equipped with Direct Current Fast Charging ports for at least five years in accordance with federal requirements, the agency said.