Episode 53: Fueling EVs in rural Oregon

Fully electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles are powered by electricity, so they need to “fuel up” at charging stations. While as much as 80 percent of charging happens at home, public chargers allow those without access to home charging and those traveling farther distances to recharge their batteries. On this episode, we discuss EV charger availability and reliability and get a first-person perspective of EVs in rural Oregon. Guests: Jillian DiMedio, ODOE Senior Energy Policy Analyst; Steve Gutmann, co-founder of EVmath; and Robert Wallace, executive director Wy’East RC&D Grounded music by PaulYudin Sound Effect by freesound_community from Pixabay Resources • Biennial Zero Emission Vehicle Report : • EVmath.org: • Wy'East RC&D: • Oregon Electric Vehicle Dashboard: • ODOT’s National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program: • DEQ’s Zero-Emission Fueling Infrastructure Grant:

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Episode 53: Fueling EVs in rural Oregon is an episode from Grounded: a Podcast by the Oregon Department of Energy by Grounded: An Oregon Department of Energy Podcast.

This episode is 00:36:26 long.

This episode was published on Mar 18, 2026.

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