Wisconsin was awarded $78 million for 53 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to be located at businesses along a corridor of Wisconsin’s major roadways. The first three federally funded electric vehicle (EV) fast-charging stations started running at Kwik Trips in Ashland, Menominee, and Chippewa Falls in December 2024.
Applications for the next 13 were opened by the state Department of Transportation (WisDOT) in October and are due February 14, 2025. The rest were to be installed by mid-2026. The state was planning to fund building EV charging stations off the corridor with the estimated remaining $40 million. However, it is unclear how the Trump Administration’s Unleashing American Energy Executive Order will impact the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program that funds charging infrastructure. WIDOT.