Electric Vehicles in UVA/Charlottesville
Information and updates about electric vehicles at UVA and Charlottesville.
Local Charging Map
On Grounds EV Chargers
There aren’t too many:
- Central Grounds Garage: 2 25 kW DC chargers, 1 J-1772 L2 charger.
- Darden Parking Garage: 3 NEMA 14-50 outlets. These spots require a D10EV parking permit.
- UVA Facilities has a few for their Nissan Leafs.
Charging in Cville
EVgo is has opened some outdated locations in Charlottesville. These are all slow 50 kW chargers.
- Barracks Road Shopping Center
- Water Street Parking Garage
- Southside Shopping Center
Tesla has a Supercharger at Stonefield.
The Albermarle County building has three Chargepoint DC chargers and a couple L2 chargers. These are free, and thus are pretty busy.
The Ford dealer has Blink DCFC chargers.
Tiger Fuel installed two Chargepoint chargers at The Market at Mill Creek.
There used to be Greenlots chargers, two in downtown surface parking lots, they broke and were never repaired.
Several businesses have free-to-use EV chargers in their parking lots.
Comparisons with Other Universities
- Virginia Tech
- Blacksburg, VA: 2 at the Inn
- NOVA: 2 J-1772 at Virginia Tech Research Center
- Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)
- 3 J-1772 in parking garages
- George Mason University (GMU)
- Fairfax: 8 J-1772 in three parking lots
- Arlington: 3 J-1772 in Van Metre Hall Parking Garage
- Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
- Notre Dame
- University of Michigan
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of North Carolina
The Push for EVs
There is support for electric vehicles in Virginia.
Virginia
- 2020 EV-related Legislation Review
- Tesla Continues to Open VA Superchargers
- EVgo Opens 800th Location
- 2018 Virginia Energy Plan: From the governor’s office, the plan describes how increasing the percentage of electric vehicles registered in Virginia (0.14% in 2017) can be a major driver for reducing CO2 emissions.
- Adopt a Charger Program: The Virginia Clean Cities organization has started a crowdfunded campaign to install free-to-use L2 chargers in Virginia.
- EVgo Charging Stations in Virginia: Virginia is spending $14M of its share of the VW settlement money to contract EVgo to install DC fast chargers in Virginia.
- Electrify America Charging Locations: Electrify America (based in Virginia!) is installing charging locations across the United States, including several in Virginia.
Charlottesville
- Mini-Grants for EV Chargers: The city created a grant to help subsidize the installation of publicly accessible EV chargers.
- Riverbend Development: This development firm is a proponent of EVs, and has EV chargers at at least two developments (Coca-Cola Building and Emmet Street Station). Although, they promised three L2 chargers at Emmet Street Station and never installed them.
Related Organizations
Why Do I Care?
Because I am an EV owner! I bought a Chevy Bolt in August 2018 and have been driving electric ever since.