The document outlines electrification strategies from CDOT's 2021 strategic plan aimed at reducing emissions and increasing public EV charging stations in Chicago. Key findings reveal that 47 out of 77 community areas lack public chargers and a significant concentration of existing chargers is in only three areas. The plan includes community engagement and funding to support the establishment of community-owned EV infrastructure, as well as programs to transition to electric fleets.

1. Centering Equity Panel
Forth Workshop, Chicago
April 17, 2024

2. Electrification Strategies
from CDOT’s 2021 Strategic
Plan
• Reduce emissions from CDOT’s fleet
• Increase availability of public charging stations for
electric vehicles
• Relaunch Chicago’s Drive Clean Truck Program and
expand efforts to reduce emissions from truck
fleets
• Encourage waterway operators to use lower-
carbon fuels to reduce marine engine emissions
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3. Data analyzed by NWU & compiled from:
-Illinois Secretary of State EV Registrations, 2020
-CMAP Community Data Snapshot, 2019
Data analyzed by NWU & compiled from:
-AFDC Illinois Fueling Stations Data, 2020
-Plugging In Report, 2017
Key Insights
• Every community area
has registered EVs
EV Landscape in Chicago
• 47 of 77 community areas
do not have a single public
charger
• 70% of all public
charging is located in just
3 community areas
• 840 current public chargers
& will need 2800 by 2030*
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*Charger need extrapolated from
-Frontier Group, 2018

4. EV Framework Deliverables
PHASE 1 (Complete by Q2 2024)*
• Stakeholder engagement
• Define landscape of parking and public EV
charging
• Policy interventions to ensure equity
• Identify criteria for future deployment of EV
Chargers
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PHASE 2 (Completed by Q4 2024)
• Continued stakeholder engagement
• Design public right of way EV charging pilot
• Develop grant program guidelines
Commercial Online Survey: Available in English and Spanish at
www.chicago.gov/chicagomoveselectric

5. 2023 Grant Application:
Charge Up Chicago!
Community-Owned Charging
• Builds on USDOE-funded project with
the Clean Cities Coalition, Center for
Neighborhood Technology, 13 CBOs,
and American Lung Association
• Establishes community developed
transportation decarbonization strategic
plans
• Provides funding for participating CBOs
to invest in community-owned e-
mobility charging infrastructure

6. 2023 Grant Application:
Charge Up Chicago!
Chicago Public Libraries
• Leveraging Chicago Public Libraries sites to efficiently
establish a charging station network in communities
that are underserved by existing privately-owned EV
charging networks
• 20 initial sites identified
• E-mobility programming at libraries
• Extensive public engagement

7. Drive Clean Truck
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Electric Med- & Heavy-Duty Transition
Program
• Incentive funding for fleet EV chargers
• Initial priority project areas identified with Driving Zero
Emissions Communities partners:
• Center for Neighborhood Technologies (CNT), Little Village
Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO), and the
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
• Co-design program to create desired impact
• Improve awareness and understanding of EV opportunities
• Community-owned businesses
• Large commercial fleet operators
• Transparency in program progress