As of the middle of January, the first federally funded electric vehicle charging stations are up and running. The fast-charging stations came online at Kwik Trip locations in Ashland, Menomonie and Chippewa Falls. They’re three of the 53 charging station projects at businesses across Wisconsin that have been awarded funding.

The state is receiving $78 million from the federal government’s National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure, or NEVI, Formula Program, funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The 53 projects announced so far account for about $23 million of that funding. 

The remaining 50 charging projects that have already been announced are expected to continue to come online through the first half of 2026, said Kaleb Vander Wiele, the transportation electrification project manager at the state Department of Transportation.