EV council details revised county‑level vehicle and charging port targets based on updated 2025 counts

Andrew Rector, the EV Council manager, explained the council's approach to updating its county‑level targets for electric vehicles and DC fast‑charging ports. He said the team compared 2025 statewide light‑duty vehicle counts with the original Transportation Electrification Strategy (TEZ) modeling and found the TEZ overestimated vehicle population, so the council applied a 2.8% discount to the original TEZ EV population targets and matched counties to the closest TEZ adoption scenarios through 2035.

"So for starters, what we did was we took all of the, Tez EV population targets and lopped 2.8% off of them to sort of reflect that fact that the statewide vehicle count is just smaller than expected," Rector said. He described phasing the revised targets gradually through 2030 and then increasing ambition toward 2035, producing a county‑level trajectory intended for planning rather than enforcement.

For charging infrastructure, Rector described a two‑step method: fit a statewide mathematical relationship between vehicle population and DC fast‑charging ports, then allocate the statewide port total to counties based on each county's share of the state's EV registrations under the revised targets. He said the approach is intended to produce planning‑level port targets that scale with county adoption and local needs.

The council plans to publish an explainer of the methodology in the meeting Box.com folder; Rector asked members to review the near‑final materials and return comments by the indicated deadline. The revised targets are framed for planning and progress measurement and do not carry penalties or enforcement actions, he said.