Electric Vehicles
We love to help people get out of their cars, but if you just gotta drive, electrify!
Ground transportation is responsible for one-fifth of island-wide greenhouse gas emissions. With cars and light-duty trucks responsible for over 90% of ground transportation emissions, it is important to transition to cleaner, quieter, and cheaper-to-maintain vehicles while also improving other transportation choices. Learn more about EVs below, and for even more, check out Drive Electric Hawaiʻi.
Why Drive an Electric Vehicle?
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Using electricity to power your car instead of gas is more efficient and emits less carbon, even if the grid was 100% fossil fueled. Our grid is over 30% renewable energy today and zipping towards our goal of 100% by 2045.
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EVs convert over 77% of the electrical energy to power at the wheels, while conventional gas vehicles convert 12-30% of fossil energy stored in liquid fuel, with the rest wasted as heat!
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Today, EVs are a little more expensive than gas guzzlers but EV prices are dropping fast, and there’s plenty incentives! Even more savings come from lower maintenance, and if you own a roof you can use PV to charge your EV!
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Electric motors offer a quieter and smoother drive, stronger acceleration, and more horsepower than most fossil fuel vehicles. And if that’s not enough, driving an EV (even by yourself) means you can ride in the zipper lane!
Incentives
Previously Owned Clean Vehicle Credit - IRA
Tax credit worth $4,000 or 30% of sales price for a 2+ year old clean vehicleClean Vehicle Tax Credit - IRA
Tax credit / instant rebate worth up to $7,500 for a new electric vehicleSmart Charge - Hawaiian Electric
Earn $150 in cash or 10,000 Hawaiian Miles while tracking electric vehicle charging cost and consumption
Hawaiʻi Energy EV Charging Station Rebate
A local rebate for up to $35,000 for electric vehicle charging stations§30C: Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Tax Credit
A 30% federal tax credit, up to $100,000, for charger installed in a rural or low income communityAdditional Federal Incentives
Additional loans and grants for different electric vehicle charging projects
Public Chargers
Green and purple pin are active and upcoming public chargers at City facilities, respectively. Grey pins are sites that are being considered and are subject to change. Blue pins are other publicly available chargers as listed on the Alternative Fuel Data Center (Sept. 2024)
Zoom in and hover over each station to view more information.
Action 4.4 of the Climate Action Plan involves the expansion of charging infrastructure by increasing public charging capacity on City facilities.
In 2020, the City had 9 ports across 4 locations. Today, there are 23 ports across 10 locations, with more on the way.
NEW: Chargers installed at Kapālama Hale and Hans L’orange Neighborhood Park
Public Charging Resources
DC Fast Charging Stations - Hawaiian Electric
Available Charging Stations - ChargeHub
EV Charger Laws
Ordinance 23-25: Adoption of the Energy Code
Ensure a percentage of new parking stalls built for new residential and commercial construction are EV-“ready” (as previously adopted in Ordinance 20-10).
EV-ready means developments should be constructed to include electrical panel capacity and dedicated conduit for future Level 2 EV-charger(s).
Hawaiʻi Revised Statutes 291-71: Designation of Parking Spaces for Electric Vehicle Charging Systems
The statutes require at least one parking space equipped with an EV charger in public spaces with at least 100 parking spaces.
Hawaiʻi Revised Statutes 195-7.5 : Placement of EV charging systems; multi-family residential building or town house
The statutes require homeowner association and other private entity to accommodate condominium owners who would like to install EV chargers.
Did you know that the City is electrifying its fleet? Check out the Climate Action Plan to learn more about actions the City is taking to tackle greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector and improve overall quality of life on O‘ahu.