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Trinity, Siskiyou and Modoc counties team up to develop electric vehicle charging plans

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A group of rural Northern California counties are jointly applying for funding from Caltrans to develop zero emission vehicle charging plans.

The regional plan for Trinity, Siskiyou and Modoc counties would identify where EV charging stations should be built, and prepare the infrastructure needed to support them.

The counties were approached by the coalition Rural County Representatives of California, which found they didn鈥檛 have a plan in place after helping Yolo County develop a plan of their own.

At a meeting with Trinity County Supervisors on Wednesday, Bob Burris at the RCRC said counties without readiness plans in place have been losing out on public and private investment.

鈥淧art of the urgency of putting together readiness plans is to make sure that counties are ready to receive both private and public dollars while both are flowing,鈥 he said.

California will require that all passenger cars and light-duty trucks sold from 2035 are zero-emission. The state estimates it will need around 1.2 million chargers by 2030 to meet demand. It鈥檚 spending hundreds of millions of dollars to develop that network.

The coalition plans to submit the grant application to Caltrans by the Jan. 18 deadline, which could award them up to $700,000 dollars to develop the tri-county plan.

Roman Battaglia is a regional reporter for 老夫子传媒. After graduating from Oregon State University, Roman came to JPR as part of the Charles Snowden Program for Excellence in Journalism in 2019. He then joined Delaware Public Media as a Report For America fellow before returning to the JPR newsroom.