Issue #5 · June 1, 2026
30C's Final Month Begins, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania Open Fresh State Charging Money, Philadelphia Lines Up 1,400-Plus Public Ports, and Santa Barbara Targets Multifamily
TLDR
The federal 30C credit enters its final 29 days; after June 30 it drops to zero. As the federal door closes, states and cities are stepping in. Wisconsin opened a roughly $40M NEVI round for corridor charging, due July 24. Pennsylvania's $100M community charging program keeps rolling out region by region. Philadelphia lined up more than 1,400 public ports between a 435-port PositivEnergy deal and nearly 1,000 curbside Level 2 chargers. Santa Barbara Clean Energy launched Charge Up SB for multifamily and affordable housing. Tesla now runs 52% of all US DC fast-charging ports.
29 Days: 30C Enters Its Final Month
As of publication, the Section 30C Alternative Fuel Vehicle Refueling Property Credit has 29 days left. It expires June 30, 2026, terminated early by the One Big Beautiful Bill signed into law July 4, 2025. No extension is pending in Congress.
Until it expires, 30C covers 30% of hardware and installation costs, up to $1,000 for a residential charger and up to $100,000 per port for commercial property in an eligible census tract. After June 30, the credit drops to zero.
We said it last week and it is more true now: typical installation runs 6 to 10 weeks from signing a contract. A project that is not already permitted will not be energized by June 30. If you are mid-permit with a contractor lined up, close it. If you have not started, stop counting on 30C and start mapping the state and utility programs that will replace it. That is not a consolation prize this week. As the federal credit winds down, the more interesting money is moving to the states and cities, and several of them opened new doors in the past week.
Wisconsin Opens a Roughly $40M Round for Corridor Charging
On May 26, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation released the request for proposals for its WEVI Connecting Corridors round, the first round of state EV infrastructure funding aimed at corridors beyond Wisconsin's originally designated Alternative Fuel Corridors. Roughly $40 million in NEVI money remains available under the program.
The terms follow the standard NEVI structure: federal funds cover up to 80% of project costs, and applicants bring at least 20% in non-federal match. Applications are due July 24, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. Central, with awards expected in autumn.
For a commercial property owner on or near a Wisconsin highway corridor, this is the kind of program that fills the gap 30C leaves behind, and at a far higher cost-share than the federal credit ever offered. The 20% match requirement is the catch worth planning around early, because it determines how much capital you need on hand before reimbursement.
Pennsylvania Keeps Its $100M Community Charging Program Rolling
Pennsylvania continues to roll out its $100 million Community Charging program under NEVI, region by region, throughout 2026. The first round opened for Southeastern Pennsylvania, with roughly $34 million for projects in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties. Western Pennsylvania districts opened next, with Eastern and Central rounds scheduled for August and September.
Unlike highway-corridor money, the Community Charging phase targets chargers inside neighborhoods, the public Level 2 and DC fast charging that residents and local businesses actually use day to day. PennDOT reports that since the state's first NEVI station opened in December 2023, Pennsylvania's NEVI chargers have supported more than 80,000 charging sessions and over 9.6 million estimated electric miles.
If you own commercial property in a Pennsylvania region whose round has not yet opened, this is the time to scope a site and line up an installer, so you are ready to apply the week the window opens rather than starting from zero.
Philadelphia Lines Up More Than 1,400 Public Ports
Two separate Philadelphia deals in the past two weeks add up to a city moving fast.
435 ports with PositivEnergy. The Miami-based operator PositivEnergy announced a project to deploy roughly 435 public DC fast-charging and Level 2 ports across Philadelphia, which the company calls the largest single-city deployment in its portfolio to date. Notably, the company is framing the project around reliability, the broken-charger problem that has dogged public networks for years, rather than raw port count.
Nearly 1,000 curbside Level 2 chargers with it's electric. Separately, the city approved an agreement with it's electric, a Brooklyn startup, to install close to 1,000 curbside Level 2 chargers, part of a broader goal of roughly 1,000 public chargers in service by 2027.
Curbside charging matters because it targets the hardest residential case: people who park on the street and have no driveway, garage, or assigned spot to wire. For renters and rowhouse residents, on-street Level 2 is often the only realistic path to home-adjacent charging, and Philadelphia is betting on it at scale.
Santa Barbara Targets the Multifamily Gap
Santa Barbara Clean Energy launched Charge Up SB, a program to help multifamily and affordable-housing properties in the city install EV charging. It pairs free hands-on support, including site assessment, permitting help, and customized installation scenarios, with incentives covering Level 1 and Level 2 outlets, Level 2 stations, electrical panel upgrades, and the make-ready work that prepares a site for chargers. Affordable-housing properties qualify for enhanced incentive levels and higher project-cost coverage.
The pattern is worth noting because it keeps repeating: the programs launching this spring keep pointing at multifamily, because that is where the charging gap is widest. Around 80% of EV charging happens at home, and apartment residents have the fewest options to do it. A local program that absorbs the site assessment and permitting work, the two steps that most often stall multifamily projects, removes the friction that has kept property owners on the sidelines.
By the Numbers
Tesla now operates 3,088 Supercharger stations with 37,428 ports in the US, about 52% of all public DC fast-charging ports in the country. The broader US public DC fast-charging count has topped 72,500 ports and is growing by more than 1,000 stalls a month. Wisconsin's open round: roughly $40M, due July 24. Pennsylvania's program: $100M, rolling out by region.
Sources: Kiplinger, NuWatt Energy, Plug In America, Wisconsin DOT / WisPolitics, electrive, PennDOT, Electrek, PR Newswire / PositivEnergy, Santa Barbara Independent, EVChargingStations.com / State of Charge. evcharginghelp.com is editorially independent and receives no compensation from any company mentioned.
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