New Federal Funding Secured for a Variety of New Mexico Electric Charging Station Projects1/16/2024 ![]() Plans will soon be in the works for the construction of two medium and heavy-duty commercial truck charging stations on a 135-mile stretch of desert highway in southern New Mexico. The projects will go up off of the stretch of Interstate 10 connecting the towns of Lordsburg and Vado, and are being funded to the tune of $63 million via the federal government's Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program That program, in turn, has been made possible as a result of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. In a statement, Representative Gabe Vasquez said the Lordsburg/Vado project investment "is the largest award in the United States and will go a long way in not just supporting cleaner trucks but boosting economic development in our rural communities." The project funding is a part of a larger total of $68 million in competitive grant funding heading for New Mexico as part of the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure program. Around $3.3 million in the program is allotted for Santa Fe County to fund an electric vehicle charging network of some 33 stations in underserved communities, as well as county-operated transportation hubs and multi-family housing developments. The smallest portion of the $68 million, at $500,000, will target the building of a half dozen charging stations in the Town of Taos. Ricky Serna, in a press release issued by the New Mexico Department of Transportation, remarked on the Lordsburg/Vado project, saying the new stations comprise "some of the first purpose-built charging infrastructure for medium and heavy-duty commercial vehicles in the nation." Serna, the state's Secretary of Transportation, added that the new stations will "revolutionize transportation and electric vehicle connectivity routes not only in New Mexico, but for the entire southwest region of the country." By Garry Boulard
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