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Votes at a glance: what the EV charging workgroup approved
Summary
Workgroup votes: (1) longevity maintenance plans to be filed at registration (informative, public) (9 in favor); (2) owners responsible, operators may coordinate reporting (unanimous); (3) MDOT timeline (max 18 months to start reporting) chosen as main recommendation.
The work group recorded three primary outcomes in hand votes and consensus checks during the meeting.
1) Longevity maintenance plan at registration — approved (informative, not agency-approved) Members voted to require owners or site hosts to provide a longevity maintenance plan at time of registration for publicly available EV charging equipment. The plan is intended to be a public, non-confidential record of how the site will be maintained or decommissioned; agencies will monitor compliance but will not 'accept' or formally approve the plan. Chair recorded '9 in favor' for the overall recommendation on the longevity plan.
2) Owner responsibility; operator coordinator — unanimous The group agreed unanimously that the owner of the EVSE is ultimately responsible for compliance; operators may be designated by owners to handle reporting and customer notifications. Charging stations should display owner and/or operator contact information to facilitate complaint handling and repairs.
3) Reporting timeline (MDOT proposal) — plurality support On how soon reporting and enforcement should begin, the group considered multiple timelines. MDOT—s proposal that implementing agencies set a reporting start date up to a maximum of 18 months after regulations are established received the most votes and will be presented as the work group's principal timeline recommendation in the report; dissenting timelines and alternatives will be documented.
Other votes and procedural outcomes - Members supported collecting uptime metrics for publicly funded chargers and requiring DC fast chargers that are publicly available to report uptime even when not publicly funded; the group held that penalties should be phased and consider existing contractual obligations. - Members asked implementing agencies to notify EVSE operators when consumer complaints are received and debated whether reporting should be annual or biennial; the final report will record that agencies will propose reporting cadence.
The work group will circulate a cleaned draft of recommendations to members for a final sign-off, and unresolved items will be addressed in a follow-up meeting before the report is transmitted to the legislature.
