Window 2 of CALeVIP's Fast Charge California Project, the California Energy Commission's public DC fast charging incentive, accepts applications from 9:00 a.m. PT on October 7, 2026 to 5:00 p.m. PT on January 14, 2027. It has at least $27.6 million of the $55.2 million the CEC announced in May 2026 for two windows. It pays up to 100% of eligible installation costs, capped per port by guaranteed output: $55,000 at 150 to 274.99 kW and $100,000 at 275 kW and above, on 4 to 20 ports per site. Funding is reserved first come, first served, except that applications with every charger in a disadvantaged community, low-income community, or on tribal land move ahead of later non-priority applications. Only ready-to-build applications count: you need an issued permit and a final utility service design (or a utility letter saying no new service is needed) at submission, or the application is cancelled. Construction cannot start before October 7, 2026. Window 3 runs February 24 to May 27, 2027 at a flat $55,000 per port. The Window 2 manual bars combining the grant with utility charger programs or other CEC funding, and Window 3 is expected to follow it. Neither window can use the federal 30C credit, which ended June 30, 2026.
Updated Sep 202620 min read
CALeVIP's Fast Charge California Project pays up to $100,000 per charging port in its Window 2 application period, October 7, 2026 to January 14, 2027, but the money is gated on hardware. Under the Window 2 Implementation Manual dated September 18, 2026, chargers must be new equipment (replacement installations are not eligible), certified to OCPP 2.0.1 Core and Advanced Security profiles, ENERGY STAR certified or exempt, CTEP certified for metering, listed by an NRTL to UL 2202, ISO 15118 hardware ready, able to deliver at least 150 kW guaranteed per port with every port in use, and listed on CALeVIP's eligible equipment dashboard. Both CCS and J3400 (the SAE standard for the NACS connector) ports count toward the incentive, and at least 50% of a site's charging ports must be CCS. Tesla's V4 Supercharger holds two OCPP 2.0.1 certificates that pass both required profiles, one from July 2025 for a V3 Cabinet configuration and one from June 2026 for a V4 Cabinet configuration tested with European CCS2 connectors, but as of September 30, 2026 no Tesla equipment appears on the dashboard.
Updated Sep 202613 min read
California's Title 24 / CALGreen has required EV infrastructure in new nonresidential and multifamily construction for years. The 2025 code edition, effective January 1, 2026, is the biggest change in a while: it splits the nonresidential scoping table by building use (office/retail versus other), pushes a much larger share of spaces from merely capable to actually installed EVSE, and cuts the power that may be allocated to EV-capable-only spaces. This piece is a high-level summary of the tiers and the 2025 changes; the binding numbers live in the adopted code tables.
Updated Oct 20269 min read
Governor Newsom signed six EV bills on September 20, 2026, and four of them change how chargers get permitted, approved, and switched on in California. AB 1820 caps city and county permit fees for Level 2 charging at multifamily housing, starting July 1, 2027 in larger jurisdictions and January 1, 2028 in smaller ones. SB 1283 extends the state's streamlined charger permit to canopies, on-site batteries, trenching, and pads. SB 969 lets factory-certified paid chargers go into service without a field accuracy test. SB 1267 is the HOA bill, and it mostly shifts cost and liability for common-area chargers onto owners and installers rather than giving homeowners a new right. None of the four takes effect before January 1, 2027.
Updated Sep 202614 min read