Zero-emission vehicle charging and hydrogen fueling infrastructure are critical to meeting California’s clean transportation goals. Public, private, and utility investments have played essential roles in deploying the existing and upcoming charging and fueling infrastructure.
To effectively invest public dollars into zero-emission vehicle charging and hydrogen fueling stations, staff conducted analyses to better understand existing operational charging ports and hydrogen fueling stations, future charging ports and hydrogen fueling stations funded by other entities or resulting from code compliance, and how many additional charging ports and hydrogen stations are needed year by year to meet state goals.
The first Zero-Emission Vehicle Infrastructure Plan (ZIP), released in December 2022, was intended to support decision-making in the public and private sectors by describing the state’s short- and long-term actions to ensure that zero-emission vehicle infrastructure deployment
will meet the needs of the growing zero-emission vehicle market. This second ZIP describes California’s infrastructure deployment plan to meet the goals of the light-duty passenger vehicle market and medium-duty and heavy-duty truck and bus market.