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Charge! Program
Expanding access to electric vehicle charging stations.
Announcement:
The Fiscal Year Ending (FYE) 2025 Charge! Program is now open and accepting applications. Please reference the Program Guidance and navigate to the Application Portal to start your application. Applications are due by 5:00 PM PT on June 6, 2025.
Application/Grantee Portal
The Charge! Program provides grant funding to offset a portion of the cost to purchase and install new publicly accessible (multi-family housing located projects are not subject to public accessibility requirements) chargers for light-duty electric vehicles, or EVs, at multi-family housing facilities, destinations, transit parking locations, and workplaces across the Bay Area. The goal of the Charge! Program is to rapidly expand access to EV charging stations to help achieve the Bay Area’s EV-adoption goals of 90 percent of the overall vehicle fleet by 2050. At the end of 2023, there were more than 448,000 EVs registered to Bay Area drivers.
The Charge! Program is funded through the Air District’s Transportation Fund for Clean Air Regional Fund, which provides grants to improve air quality within the nine-county Bay Area by reducing emissions of pollutants from on-road vehicles. The Air District was selected to receive a $15 million grant from the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Discretionary Grant Program to support the Charge! Program. The Air District is actively monitoring the availability of these funds with the Federal Highway Administration. Funding from the Air District’s Transportation Fund for Clean Air is still available for Charge! and program requirements may change if CFI funds are no longer available. The Charge! Program may include additional funding sources as available.
FYE 2025 Charge! Program
The Air District’s FYE 2025 Charge! Program is currently open and at least $10 million in Transportation Fund for Clean Air Program funding is available. Additional Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program funding may be available.
The Air District conducted one webinar for the solicitation on February 26, 2025. The webinar provided an overview of this solicitation and covered FYE 2025 Charge! Program requirements, the application process and evaluation criteria, and administrative requirements. Webinar presentation slides and webinar recording are available below.
- FYE 2025 Charge! Program Guidance
- Application Portal
- FYE 2025 Application User Guide
- Sample FYE 2025 Charge! Program Documents
- Sample FYE 2025 Charge! Application in Fluxx
- FYE 2025 Charge! Program Webinar Presentation
- FYE 2025 Charge! Program Webinar Recording
- FYE 2025 Charge! Program Questions and Answers
Application Resources
- IRS W-9 Form
- EVITP Certification Form
- Site / Facility Form
- Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Training Program (EVITP)
- Priority Population Areas Map
Questions & Answers
The FYE 2025 Charge! Program is now open. Questions regarding this solicitation should be submitted via the Question Submittal Form and will be accepted on a rolling basis until May 23, 2025. Questions and responses will be published on this web page. For project-specific questions and application assistance, contact Air District staff at the email address shown on this page.
General questions regarding the Charge! Program can be submitted to the email address shown on this page.
This web page will be updated with additional information on future solicitations. Use the Charge! Program Signup form on this page to sign up for the Charge! Program email list.
Sign up to receive updates on the latest Charge Program activities via email notifications for all Charge Program categories.
Resources
- Sample Charge! Program Contract Template
- Community Air Risk Evaluation (CARE) Areas
- Planned and Potential Development (PDA) Areas
- AB 617 Community Health Protection Program
- Electric Vehicle Information Handout
- Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Electricity and Hydrogen Provisions
- Design Recommendations for Accessible Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
FYE 2023 Charge! Program
The Air District’s FYE 2023 Charge! Program is now closed. The FYE 2023 Charge! Program was a competitive solicitation, and the Air District reviewed, scored, and ranked all eligible grant applications to determine awardees.
Reports
- All reports are being accepted through the Fluxx Grants Management System. If you’re an existing grantee, please contact charge@baaqmd.gov to request your account login information.
Charge Program Signup
Last Updated: 3/14/2025