NEVI Implementation in Ohio: Case Study

On October 31, 2022, the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) released the nation’s first Request for Proposal (RFP) for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Program to solicit applications for public fast charging bids along state alternative fuel corridors (AFCs). Initially, the RFP period closed on January 18, 2023. However, in March 2023, changes made to the final NEVI rules and federal guidance affected the original RFP. ODOT decided to request mandatory Proposal Revisions which offered proposers who had already submitted proposals a timeframe of five weeks to amend their proposals in order to comply with the new requirements.

As part of their RFP, ODOT identified 30 possible areas, referred to as corridor groups, across all interstate AFCs with multiple interchanges in each area that would meet NEVI requirements. ODOT developed and released detailed spatial data indicating the eligible zones within each corridor group where the department sought to build charging sites. At the end of the RFP process, the department had received over 300 site proposals for NEVI funding from 30 unique applicants. On July 13, 2023, ODOT announced it would issue awards for projects across 27 of the 30 corridor groups. Four of the 27 awards are no longer proceeding. The 23 remaining awards totaled approximately $16,500,0000 in NEVI funding for Ohio’s first round.

In October 2023, ODOT announced that construction had begun on NEVI sites, and on December 13, 2023, they opened their first NEVI site, making Ohio the first state in the nation to have an operational NEVI-funded charging site. NEVI Implementation in Ohio: Case Study 4 ODOT released their second round NEVI RFP on November 9, 2023, applying lessons learned from Round One to improve the process. The application period for Round Two closed on January 25, 2024

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