Ohio DOT to award EVgo & partners $13.8M for 20 fast charging stations along interstate corridors

EVgo announced that the company and its eXtend partners were selected by DriveOhio, a division of the Ohio Department of Transportation, for proposed awards of $13.8M in funding to deploy 20 fast charging stations.

Fourteen of the 20 locations are owned by EVgo eXtend partner Pilot Company, and all EVgo and EVgo eXtend stations deployed through these awards will feature 350kW high-power fast charging.

EVgo’s Kroger Brewers Yard fast charging station in Columbus, OH.

Of the more than $18 million awarded by DriveOhio in its first tranche of National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program funds to be released, EVgo and its eXtend partners received more than 75%.

Ohio is one of the first states to announce awards from the NEVI program, which was established following the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and includes more than $5 billion in formula funding—i.e., funding that is allocated based on a predetermined formula or set of criteria—that applicants will be able to unlock to build EV charging infrastructure nationwide.

Over the next five years, DriveOhio will release more than $100 million in NEVI funds to further support EV charging infrastructure deployment across the state. In this first tranche, DriveOhio awarded more than $18 million in NEVI funds for 27 new EV charging stations along key corridors, including I-70, I-71, I-74, I-75, I-76, I-77, and I-90.

Today, Ohio has 130 publicly available fast chargers. EVgo’s most recently opened station in the state in Beachwood—just outside Cleveland—offers EV drivers four fast charging stalls with speeds up to 350kW. In total, EVgo currently operates 37 fast charging stalls across 10 locations in Ohio, including key metro markets such as Cleveand, Columbus and Cincinnati.