Charging Smart is a technical assistance and designation program that recognizes communities for electric vehicle (EV) readiness. Through the framework of this program, cities can streamline planning, permitting, and inspections to more quickly and easily deploy EV charging infrastructure. Dallas-Fort Worth Clean Cities (DFWCC) will provide personalized, no-cost technical assistance to local governments in setting and achieving EV readiness goals.
Local governments can achieve national designation by completing various criteria, as outlined in the graphic below. To learn more, please read NCTCOG’s Press Release or visit IREC’s Charging Smart webpage.
Three Easy Steps to Participate!
1.To participate in this program or if you have any questions, please email cleancities@ntcog.org. Interested cities will be sent a self-assessment survey and a commitment letter to complete and return to DFWCC.
2. The self-assessment survey gauges how far along a city is in becoming EV-ready, while the commitment letter confirms a city’s interest in pursuing Charging Smart designation.
3. Once the commitment letter is signed and the self-assessment is completed, guidance through the program will commence.
Designation Tiers
CHARGING SMART DESIGNATIONS
City of Arlington
The City of Arlington became the first city in both Texas and the southern U.S. to earn the Charging Smart Bronze Designation through creating a community-wide EV vision, standardizing and clarifying the EV charging infrastructure permitting process, and providing EV-specific training for emergency responders, among other accomplishments. For more information, read the associated press release and visit Arlington's EV webpage.
City of Mesquite
The City of Mesquite continues to advance electrified transportation by earning the Charging Smart Bronze Designation. This recognition was achieved through several actions, including permitting EV chargers as an accessory use in all zoning districts, creating an educational EV webpage for residents, and installing several chargers for public usage. For more information, visit Mesquite's EV webpage.
City of Lewisville
The City of Lewisville joins the growing number of North Texas cities dedicated to making their community EV-ready for residents and businesses by achieving the Charging Smart Bronze Designation. To earn this recognition, the city undertook several key initiatives, including adopting an EV-Ready ordinance to their development code, tabling an EV booth at the Lewisville ColorPalooza event, and performing a fleet analysis, among others! For more information, read the associated press release and visit Lewisville's EV webpage.
