Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Assessment

The Assembly Bill 2127 Third Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Assessment examines charging needs to support California’s plug-in electric vehicles through 2035. Under AB 2127, the California Energy Commission (CEC) is required to publish a biennial report on the charging needs of 5 million zero emission vehicles by 2030. In September 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom issued Executive Order N-79-20, which directed the Commission to update this assessment to support expanded ZEV adoption targets. Governor Gavin Newsom reaffirmed these expanded targets in Executive Order N-27-25. 

This report projects that to support 6.8 million light-duty electric vehicles in 2030, California will need to have a total of 478,000 public and limited access charging ports, which includes 53,000 direct-current fast charging ports, 136,000 charging ports at large multifamily housing, and 289,000 public and nonresidential limited access Level 2 charging ports at public locations, workplaces and other nonresidential sites. The CEC expects that much of the charging need will be served at single-family and small multifamily homes. An additional 54,000 chargers are needed to support the 93,000 medium- and heavy-duty vehicles anticipated for 2030.

Installing these chargers will require investments in labor and workforce training and development. Between 2026 and 2035, up to 276,000 job-years will be needed to manufacture, install, and maintain charging ports for light-duty and medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicles in California.

Assembly Bill 2127 Third Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Assessment: Assessing Charging Needs to Support Zero-Emission Vehicles in California

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Background

Assembly Bill 2127, authored by Assembly member Phil Ting and adopted in 2019 as Section 25229 of the California Public Resources Code, requires the California Energy Commission to prepare an assessment of the charging infrastructure needed to meet the 2030 goals of 5 million ZEVs and a 40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels. These efforts will leverage past work by the Energy Commission and others, and will be coordinated with several ongoing activities.

AB 2127 efforts leverage work on the Integrated Energy Policy Report, independent stakeholder reports on charging infrastructure, publicly-owned utilities’ Integrated Resources Plans, and other agency and utility activities promoting electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

The Energy Commission coordinates the following activities to inform and adapt into the inaugural charging infrastructure assessment:

Workshops and stakeholder comments related to the 2025 IEPR, the AB 2127 charging infrastructure assessment itself, and parallel infrastructure activities including ensuring equitable access and accounting for deployed chargers
Efforts to advance and prepare for widespread vehicle-grid integration
Energy Commission, other agency, and utility activities promoting adoption of plug-in electric vehicles in all sectors and supporting infrastructure deployment
New work with contractors to update the Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Projections (“EVI-Pro”) model and to create a new model (“HEVI-LOAD”) accounting for on-road medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicles

Reports

Assembly Bill 2127 Third Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Assessment: Assessing Charging Needs to Support Zero-Emission Vehicles in California

Assembly Bill 2127 Second Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Assessment: Assessing Charging Needs to Support Zero-Emission Vehicles in 2030 and 2035

Assembly Bill 2127 Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Assessment - Analyzing Charging Needs to Support Zero-Emission Vehicles in 2030 and 2035