Commuters and residents will soon see more electric vehicle (EV) charging stations across Metro Nashville after The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) and The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) awarded a $4.7M grant to Metro to install more charging stations around the city.
This grant will allow Metro Nashville to continue growing EV infrastructure in and around Nashville. The city applied for the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program (CFI Program) in 2023 in collaboration with NES. The grant will help fund the “Electrify MUSIC City Project”, a proposed project aiming to create an EV infrastructure that doubles the number of charging locations in Nashville and secures 63% of charging locations in historically underinvested areas.
In addition to the Metro Nashville partnership, NES has committed to developing an EV-friendly infrastructure across its service area through its work with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). TVA is working to bring 200,000 EVs onto Tennessee roads by 2028, which will bring several benefits to the region:
- Attracting high-quality jobs – $17.2 billion in EV and battery manufacturing have helped create over 14,000 EV-related jobs in the past 10 years
- Reducing carbon emissions from gasoline vehicles by almost 1 million metric tons per year or the equivalent of the carbon sequestered by 1 million acres of U.S. forests in one year
- Reinvesting $120 million in the local economy every year from electric refueling
- Saving drivers up to $1,000 in fuel and maintenance costs every year
In 2023, NES and the TVA unveiled two new fast chargers at Serra Chevrolet Buick GMC in Madison. This installation is the first of five planned sites in Metro Nashville, and with the newest grant from the USDOT and FHWA, EV drivers will now have even more options when stopping to charge up.
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