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Explore MGE’s EV Fast-Charging Hub in Downtown Madison!

 

MGE’s new Fast-Charging Hub provides EV drivers a fast and convenient place to charge. In the heart of the Capitol East District, the hub offers nearby residents and business owners easy access to EV fast charging, powered by renewable energy! The electrification of transportation is a key strategy for reducing carbon emissions, and fast charging is key to helping grow the use of EVs.

Please note: Our Fast-Charging Hub will remain open during construction in the area this spring. To enter the Hub, please approach from the E. Main Street/S. Livingston Street intersection, and then proceed north on Livingston to the entrance.
 
 
 

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Comments

Joshua Rybaski
Fast charging is the way of the future. I look forward to being able to afford an EV some day but in the meantime I'd settle for EV buses.
4/17/2023 7:02:32 PM
Dale Vollmert
Bravo,

The biggest hurdles to more widespread acceptance of EVs are battery capacity (getting better) and charging station availability. We are thrilled that this new fast-charging hub is located barely off the Square. Looking forward, we would like to see more of these fast charging stations installed, especially, in denser population areas. But, in the here and now, you are being very progressive and off to a great start! We love where the EV movement is headed! Keep up the good work and also, keeping the torch lit and held up high for everybody to see, and hopefully, so many more people will see it and decide to jump on the EV movement!
4/8/2023 7:06:32 PM
Helena Tsotsis
This is very welcome news. I am also curious how one pays for this service. Having more of an infrastructure for EV will certainly help in adoption of the technology. Our next vehicle will be an EV for sure.
4/8/2023 1:11:55 PM
Madison Gas and Electric
Thank you, Ken, for your question and for your interest in MGE’s EV Fast-Charging Hub! The chargers operate on the Shell Recharge network. Drivers will need to download the Shell Recharge app and link to a payment method or order a free RFID card on the app. We have 7 CCS ports and one CHAdeMO port. The cost to charge is $5/hr. Thanks for watching!
4/6/2023 12:08:06 PM
Michelle
Thanks for the informative story about the new fast-charging station!
4/6/2023 5:14:06 AM
Susan G Quam
Great video! Happy to see LJ's highlighted. They were one of the first to move into the neighborhood and support business growth. I am sure the charging stations will play a great role in helping businesses thrive there.
4/5/2023 3:40:07 PM
Anette Hansen
Great step in right direction. Hopefully more to come.
4/5/2023 11:17:36 AM
Renee Meiller
Two of the biggest barriers to more widespread adoption of EVs are battery capacity and charging station availability. In the short term, the latter can help address the former, and I think it's fantastic that this fast-charging hub is located just a couple of blocks off the Square. Not only do they serve an area with increasing population density, but also growing visitor appeal, and they nicely complement Madison's focus on alternative transportation modes. In the future, I would like to see mini cafe-style "waiting rooms" so that people who are charging their cars can spend that 20 minutes enjoying a coffee or other beverage if they don't have other browsing or errands to run nearby.
4/5/2023 10:48:20 AM
David
Keep up the great work!
4/5/2023 10:18:02 AM
John Rider
More stations like this will help make the decision to go electric much easier.
4/5/2023 9:11:05 AM
Ken Scott
What Anita Faulkner says! Is this a free service provided by MG&E or do we pay a vendor who runs it? The video doesn't reveal which of many private "apps" we're supposed to join. I've successfully traveled cross-country (Wis. to N.C. and to Florida), an adventure currently resembling a trip by Conestoga wagon; you don't set out without knowing where your supply depots are, as well as having fallback Plans B, C and D. It appears this charging station addresses that concern in the Madison area, efficiently serving people traveling within a 200-mile radius with enough stations to avoid the waiting in lines. What a boon for the Capitol East neighborhood, but really all of Madison!
4/5/2023 8:46:50 AM
Don Reeder
Good start. It would seem to need another such station on the west side of the square. A high priority is the establishment of recharging in all the new apartment buildings that are being constructed.
4/4/2023 5:26:11 PM
Steve Allison
Great addition to the Isthmus area.
4/4/2023 4:15:03 PM
Anita Faulkner
Nice video and more fast charging stations a plus. What the future needs is at least one fast charging station at every gasoline station and every state/federal rest area. It would make travel plans so much easier. There also needs to be consistency. I want to use ONE app or card for all stations. Until this happens, I continue to only take day trips in my all-electric car. I have only had an all-electric car since 2012. We are definitely further in recharging technology, but we need to be even further if we want the rest of the world to join us.
4/4/2023 3:47:13 PM

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