Join Francie on today's episode as she sits down with Preeti Choudhary the Executive Director of Drive Ohio and Breanna Badanes the Managing Director of Communications and Policy at DriveOhio to speak to their strategy, accomplishments, goals, and lessons learned after getting the nation's first NEVI funded EV charging site live outside of Columbus OH at a Pilot Travel Center! Francie, Preeti, and Breanna discuss their framework for getting Ohio's NEVI plan written and approved, how they chose their charging and hardware partners, what they'd like to see different with the program, what they think has worked best for their team, and what's coming next down the line for their state and electric vehicle charging!

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00:00 Hello and Welcome Back

00:30 Guest Introduction Preeti Choudary and Breanna Badanes

02:00 What Is DriveOhio

04:00 DriveOhio Priorities

07:00 DriveOhio's NEVI Framework For Success

09:10 Building Ohio's NEVI Plan

13:15 Keys To NEVI Plan Approval

15:10 Community and Communication

17:20 Reliability For Ohio's EV Charging

20:15 Hardware and Charging Partner Choices

22:10 L2, Workplace, and DCFC

23:40 NEVI 4 Stall Site Minimum

26:00 How Did They Get The Site Live So Fast?

29:00 Lessons Learned

33:30 Interstate Collaboration

35:55 Future Plans For Ohio EV Charging

37:50 Motivations

39:30 Conclusions

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