Research snapshot · Energy · 13 September 2026

Ev charging requirement keeps a steady drumbeat across the country

This page is a snapshot, cut 13 September 2026, of a topic that moves. Below is the shape of the movement, read from the towns' own meeting records, and the way to get a view of it that stays current.

Requirements and allowances for electric vehicle charging: charger-ready parking rules for new development, municipal installations, and the permitting that governs them.Our definition of the class.

Snapshot taken 13 September 2026, based on 132 dated municipal records flagged as ev charging requirement, spanning 76 municipalities across 23 states. The topic moves; a later cut supersedes this page.

What this page is for one topic at state or national scope, told as a story: how it arrived, the shape of its movement, a dated snapshot of a moving record, and the door to a view of it that stays current. If it does not, write to us; that is what changes the next edition.

Source documents 3 of 4 on this page link straight to the town's own record. The rest are available on request. Ask for access.

The story so far

The record starts in California, 17 March 2009. Since then 76 municipalities in 23 states have put the topic on a meeting record, at very different speeds: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont hold 62% of the dated events between them.

The last 90 days put 13 meetings on the record, level with the 90 days before.

It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: Planning Board, Weekly Warning Lists and Recycling & Energy Advisory Committee.

The shape of the movement

Dated meetings on the record at this scope, quarter by quarter, and the same 90-day count as a rolling line, whose right-hand point is that number. Counts of documents, never a reading of what they decided.
QuarterMeetingsTownsStates
Sep 2025 to Nov 2025201310
Dec 2025 to Feb 2026453114
Mar 2026 to May 202614107
Jun 2026 to Sep 2026 (current)1384

a rolling 90-day total, so the right-hand point is that same 90-day count. The busiest stretch was Dec 2025 to Feb 2026, with 45 meetings.

Where it is moving23 states

The same topic at different speeds in different states. A state's name opens its own page where one exists.
StateTowns on the recordMeetings, 90 daysLatest
Maine1910 ▲ +100.0%2026-09-03
Massachusetts101 ▼ -50.0%2026-08-06
New Hampshire802026-04-23
Vermont502026-05-05
Illinois lighter read402026-04-20
Connecticut lighter read402026-02-10
California lighter read302026-01-15
Kentucky lighter read202026-02-07
Kansas lighter read21 new on the record2026-06-18
Maryland lighter read202026-02-02
New Jersey lighter read202026-02-25
New York lighter read202026-03-18
Pennsylvania lighter read202026-01-21
Hawaii lighter read102026-01-27
Alabama lighter read102026-03-27

And 8 more states on the record, in an account view.

From the record

The most recent documents behind this page, one per town. Each link opens the town's own file.

3 September 2026 · Falmouth, Maine Recycling & Energy Advisory Committee

the meeting packet, on the town's own site 2026.09.03 Sustainability Committee Meeting — Packet

24 August 2026 · Biddeford, Maine Policy Committee

the meeting packet, on the town's own site Policy Committee Meeting (Live) 2026-08-24 — Policy Committee

6 August 2026 · Fitchburg, Massachusetts

the agenda, on the town's own site Agenda — 2026-08-06

5 August 2026 · Missoula, Montana Neigh. Council Lewis & Clark Agendas & Minu

the agenda, on the town's own site August 5, 2026; Lewis & Clark Neighborhood Council Leadership Team Meeting Agenda

Companies on this record296 companies, 95 documents

Named in the same documents that carry this topic, read from the record itself: the firms designing, building and advising the work, each with where the record places them:
Yarmouth Climate Action BoardYarmouth
AECOMBiddeford, Hanover Park, La Mesa and 1 more
GPCOGFalmouth, Yarmouth
American Water WorksBiddeford, Durham, Hanover Park
CPCNHDurham, Hanover, Lebanon
American WaterDurham, Hanover Park
ArcadisBiddeford, Hanover Park
Casella Waste SystemsBiddeford, Durham
ChargepointBiddeford, Durham
ComcastAndover, Plymouth
EversourceFitchburg, Sandwich
Garbage to GardenBath, Biddeford
Land TrustFalmouth, York
SMPDCKennebunk, York
University of New EnglandBiddeford, Saco
VerizonAndover, Plymouth
Altus EngineeringDurham
ChrissieBrunswick
E.B. Walsh & AssociatesMalvern
Falmouth Land TrustFalmouth
FlowbirdSaco
GMRIBiddeford
Kennebunk Land TrustKennebunk
Niles Township Food PantrySkokie
Pine Ledge HoldingsDurham
SophieDurham
Thomas Comitta Associates, Inc.Malvern
York Country Emergency Management AgencyKennebunk
40 ThievesGroton
4th Street BridgeNewport

And 266 more companies.

The documents naming each, and the threads they sit in, are the account view. If one of these is you, those are your projects on the record. Ask and we will show you every one, and the towns around them, as they move.

A snapshot of a moving record

Everything above is frozen at 13 September 2026; the topic is not. 19 more events on this topic carry no usable date and are counted, never dated. The counts follow where we read most: a town or a state absent here was not read at depth, and absence is not evidence the topic is absent there. A lighter-read state is not a ceiling; where you care about a region, pointing the system there is the first thing an account changes. How coverage is built, and its known limits: municipalalpha.com/methodology.

How we can tell you about it ongoing

We track this topic continuously; this page is one cut of it, taken 13 September 2026. An account turns the snapshot into a working view: every town and every document behind these counts, the thread on each matter as it develops, word of new meetings as they land on the record, your own states and topics side by side, and the data itself when you want it in a table. The towns above are the taste; what each is actually deciding, funding or stalling is the read an account carries.

Each state's name above opens its own page. Counts and dates are computed from the documents on the record; the topic and its definition are ours. This page carries no subscriber content.

Ev charging requirement, across the country

from the towns' own meeting records

Scope

Across the country

Area

Energy

every topic in this area

Towns on the record

76

with a dated document on this topic

States on the record

23

counted from the record

Earliest

17 March 2009

the documents' dates

Meetings, last 90 days

13 against 13 before

dated documents

Snapshot cut

13 September 2026

this page's date

A view that stays current

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