The awards announced Nov. 5 by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) will pay for overnight chargers at 31 multifamily properties where residents typically lack at-home EV charging options, the agency said.
The reimbursement grants are sourced from the state’s Clean Fuel and Charging Infrastructure (CFCI) Program launched in 2024 with a one-time $30 million appropriation. Forty percent of the money is reserved for disadvantaged communities.
The awards are concentrated in metro Detroit suburbs such as Taylor, Allen Park, Lincoln Park, Dearborn Heights and Southfield. Other sites include Kalamazoo, Flint and Lansing.
The grants range from roughly $20,000 to $98,000 per site for installing two to ten Level 2 chargers, which typically take about 4 to 8 hours to charge a standard EV battery.
Current Charging of Birmingham is installing most of the chargers.
Large property owners receiving multiple grants include the Huron River Apartments group of Southgate and Lansing -based Simtob Management & Investment.
A new request for proposals will make another $5 million available for multifamily charging projects with grants capped at $300,000 per site.
The awards are part of ambitious targets under Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s MI Healthy Climate Plan of getting two million EV registration and deploying roughly 100,000 EV chargers by 2030. The state is far short of those targets as of this summer.
Growth in the EV market has been decelerating this year as consumers pivot toward hybrids and federal tax credits for EV buyers face repeal under the Trump administration’s rollback of clean-energy incentives.
In Michigan, the cost of EV registration is expected to rise after the state overhauled how it taxes fuel as part of a road funding deal between Republicans and Gov. Whitmer.
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