The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program is moving slower than its 2023 timelines promised and faster than its critics give it credit for. Across the seven states The Juice Index covers, we’re tracking 13 NEVI-funded charging sites: one live, four under construction, four funded and not yet broken ground, and four more in earlier stages. This report is current as of June 2026 and pulls directly from our NEVI tracker, which updates as each site’s status changes.
The Headline Numbers
Of the 13 sites we track, one is open to drivers today — the Cle Elum Electric Era hub on I-90 in Washington, a 4-port, 350 kW site that opened to the public in January 2026. Four more are under active construction: Biggs Junction on Oregon’s I-84, and three sites across Colorado, Idaho, and Montana. The remaining eight are funded or further back in the pipeline, mostly awaiting permitting or construction starts.
Combined, these 13 sites represent 56 planned charging ports. That’s a small fraction of the roughly 9,100 stations already operating across our seven-state region — NEVI isn’t building the network from scratch, it’s filling specific gaps the existing market didn’t close on its own.
Where the Gaps Actually Are
The sites NEVI is funding cluster around a recognizable pattern: long rural stretches on interstates and US highways where the existing charging market — driven by retail traffic and urban density — never had a commercial reason to build. Oregon’s I-84 corridor through the Columbia Gorge and high desert carries three of our tracked sites. Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Utah each have one to two sites apiece, generally on the same kind of corridor: real traffic, real distance between existing fast chargers, thin commercial incentive until now.
Washington is a useful case study in how this plays out differently in a denser charging market. The state has only one NEVI-funded site in our tracker — Cle Elum — because Washington’s existing commercial network already covers most of its high-traffic corridors. NEVI money in Washington is filling a much narrower set of genuine gaps than it is in, say, Wyoming, where the program is doing more of the foundational work.
Who’s Building These
The operator mix is worth noting for anyone tracking how NEVI money actually gets spent. It isn’t going exclusively to the major commercial networks. Public power utilities show up directly as NEVI awardees — Yampa Valley Electric in Colorado, NorthWestern Energy in Montana, Energy Northwest in Washington’s broader pipeline. So do dedicated NEVI-focused operators like EV Gateway, alongside the familiar names (Tesla, EVgo, Electrify America) and newer entrants like Electric Era.
That utility involvement is a genuine point of difference from how the existing commercial charging market built out. A retail-driven network chases traffic. A utility chasing a NEVI award is, at least in part, executing a grid-modernization mandate — and that shows up in where these sites get sited, often at exactly the rural highway gaps a pure traffic play would skip.
What’s Actually Live vs. What’s Still a Plan
It’s worth being direct about the difference between “funded” and “open.” A NEVI award is a real commitment of federal money, administered through each state’s DOT, but it is not a charging station you can drive to. Of our 13 tracked sites, only one has actually opened. Four are visibly under construction — a meaningfully more advanced stage than “funded,” since it means permitting cleared and a contractor is on-site. The rest are earlier in the process, and “expected live” dates on NEVI sites have, in our experience tracking this since early 2026, slipped more often than they’ve held.
If you’re planning a trip around one of these sites and it isn’t yet live, plan around the existing alternative the corridor already has. We note this explicitly in our corridor guides for exactly this reason.
How We’re Tracking This
Our NEVI tracker pulls live station data from the same NREL Alternative Fuels Data Center feed that powers the rest of this site, combined with a hand-maintained pipeline of funded and under-construction sites sourced from each state DOT’s public NEVI program page. We check status quarterly at minimum, more often when a site nears its expected live date. Every entry links to its source.
This report will update as the pipeline changes. Check the NEVI tracker directly for the current live status of any individual site.