The seventh annual “Transportation Electrification in the Southeast” report, produced in collaboration with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE), examines progress toward transportation electrification goals in six Southeastern states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Despite slower-than-expected electric vehicle (EV) demand, shifting automaker priorities, and the loss of some federal EV charging funding, the Southeast continued to advance transportation electrification. The report examines data from July 2025 through June 2026. Key highlights include:
- The region accounted for 40% of announced U.S. EV manufacturing investment and 32% of announced EV manufacturing jobs, totaling nearly $74 billion and more than 61,300 jobs.
- Between July 2025 and June 2026, some Southeast manufacturers increasingly reevaluated their strategies by canceling, delaying, downsizing, or relocating EV production plans, while some automakers and battery manufacturers shifted operations to incorporate energy storage battery production.
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In 2026, the Southeast crossed the 1 million new passenger EVs sold threshold. Sales rose 25% from last year, with 225,000 new EVs sold, while the regional 12-month average EV market share climbed to 7.3%.
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Additionally, the used EV market expanded, with the Southeast recording 140,800 used EV sales over the past 12 months, 34% more than the year prior.
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- Public fast-charger deployment continued to advance in the region. Direct current fast-charging (DCFC) ports accounted for more than half of all new ports added in the last 12 months and grew more than twice as fast as Level 2 ports.
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Although cumulative federal and state funding in the Southeast has reached a total of $2.5 billion over the last few years, federal agencies awarded no new funding and froze, delayed, or rescinded several programs.
- Most notably, Congress rescinded more than $135 million of the Southeast’s previously awarded $719 million in National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) funding.
