EV Charging Infrastructure, Soft Cost Analysis of EV Charging Infrastructure Informs Transition to an Electric Fleet
Private and public electric vehicle supply equipment —the charging infrastructure necessary to support the rapid rise in electric vehicles —are essential to the transformation of the transportation sector, yet associated expenses outside of the actual hardware, software, and construction called “soft costs” are not well understood.
Building on the novel NREL-led soft cost analysis project that began in 2010 and helped achieve cost reductions for solar technologies over the past decade, the laboratory is leveraging its learnings from the solar soft cost project’s success with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory in an effort to achieve similar soft cost reductions for EVSE installations.
NREL’s EVSE soft costs analysis project aims to address an industry knowledge gap about the variance in total costs of EV charging infrastructure, which will accelerate the deployment of a nationwide network of chargers. Photo by Joe DelNero, NREL “We’re finding that land use and development codes, including zoning and permits, have the most variety across the nation,” Desai explained. “EV charging is not always explicitly outlined in codes, and even if they are, the lack of clarity within them and variance across the authorities that manage these processes leads to stakeholder uncertainty.”
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