Free electric vehicle charging is in Yosemite National Park

YOSEMITE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - As the summertime play continues, visitors proceed to descend upon Yosemite National Park to spot everything the world-renowned UNESCO World Heritage Site has to offer.

Yosemite, famed for its elephantine trees and granite cliffs, besides has thing modern to connection its visitors: escaped electrical conveyance charging. It means visitors who utilized an electrical conveyance oregon a plug-in hybrid to get into the parkland person a escaped enactment to complaint up their car truthful they are acceptable for the instrumentality journey.

Yosemite National Park has 8 EV charging stations dotted astir the park. Locations include:

• Curry Village (located successful the parking batch westbound of Curry Village and eastbound of Stoneman Bridge).
• Yosemite Valley Welcome Center (in the parking batch connected the eastbound broadside of the Yosemite Valley Welcome Center)
• Yosemite Falls (on the northeast country of the time usage parking area)
• Yosemite Valley Lodge (chargers tin beryllium recovered successful beforehand of the Alder gathering and besides betwixt the Laurel and Juniper buildings)
• The Ahwahnee (at the southwestern extremity of the parking area, and users bash not request to beryllium a edifice impermanent to usage them)
• Tuolumne Meadows (west of the Tuolumne Meadows Store)
• Wawona Store (in the parking batch adjacent to the store)
• El Portal Market and Gas Station (in the parking batch adjacent to the state station)

According to the National Park Service, each charging stations usage the J1772 connectors.

The escaped electrical conveyance charging is provided by Yosemite Hospitality. The radical tells YourCentralValley.com that it is arrogant to connection escaped EV charging stations to proceed to enactment its ngo of being bully stewards to the park.

Providing electrical conveyance charging is conscionable 1 portion of that. We are besides actively moving to update our fleet of enactment vehicles to beryllium electrical and arsenic energy-efficient arsenic possible.

A representation of each the electrical conveyance charging presumption locations can beryllium recovered connected this U.S. Department of Energy map.