• Love’s has equipped two of its petrol stations with charging stations
• All future Love’s Travel Stops will have charging stations for electric vehicles
• Love’s began equipping its gas stations with chargers in 2017

Love’s Travel Stops continues to add electric vehicle charging stations to its locations, in part with federal funding from the Biden administration’s infrastructure bill.

On Tuesday, Love’s announced the groundbreaking of two new “next generation” charging stations in Ripley and Waterloo, New Yorkk. Each will be equipped with two dual-port DC fast chargers (four charging ports in total), but with a minimum Output of 160 kWAll new Love’s Travel Stops also have spaces for charging electric vehicles.

Electrify America charging stations at Love’s Travel Stop

Love’s has been installing electric vehicle charging stations since 2017 and partnered with Electrify America in 2020 to install on-the-go charging stations at its locations. The company now claims more than 100 chargers in 28 stores in 11 statesThis includes a mix of Level 2 AC chargers and DC fast chargers, but future construction will be exclusively Fast chargers under protective roofs.

Love’s also confirmed that it has secured funds from the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) to finance some of its new charging stations. The NEVI program was created as part of the Infrastructure Act of 2021 and provides $7.5 billion for a national network of 500,000 charging stations along 75,000 miles of highways, with funds distributed state by state. Love’s claims to be in the top three companies in terms of funds received.

Love’s Travel Stop EV charging station

According to Love’s, groundbreaking is scheduled to begin later this year on four NEVI-funded stations in Pennsylvania and four more in Kentucky. Additional NEVI-funded stations are scheduled to be built in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Washington. Start in 2025This is an encouraging sign, as the expansion of the nationwide charging network has been relatively slow so far.

Love’s cites factors such as proximity to freeways, on-site amenities and 24/7 staffing as plus points for co-locating electric vehicle charging stations at its travel centers. That includes a fast-charging network for electric vehicles at pilot travel centers being developed in conjunction with General Motors. The first 17 locations will open in 2023, with about 200 planned by the end of 2024.