Washington state has 68,000 plug-in electric vehicles registered and estimates it will need one million more on its roads by 2030 to meet its greenhouse gas emissions goals. To meet the anticipated growth in electric vehicle adoption, the state will also need sufficient charging and refueling infrastructure to serve the public. In 2020, the Washington Legislature passed HB1287, which requires the WSDOT Innovative Partnerships Office to develop and maintain a publicly available mapping and forecasting tool that will provide locations and essential information about charging and refueling infrastructure across Washington state. This project is establishing the requirements and costs of such an EV mapping and forecasting tool. To do so, the researchers are establishing the data and sources that are available and relevant to the tool’s development. To gather comments and feedback, they are also engaging with stakeholders that could provide data and technical support and others that might use the tool for forecasting EV infrastructure needs, such as utilities, public and private fleet associations, charging system and network companies, highly affected communities and environmental justice groups, renewable hydrogen interests, and potential end users. The results will be presented to the Washington Legislature.
Principal Investigator: Jim Jensen, WSU Energy Program
Sponsor: WSDOT
WSDOT Technical Monitor: Tonia Buell
WSDOT Project Manager: Doug Brodin
Scheduled completion: June 2023