The expansion is intended to reach people who cannot readily charge at home, including apartment residents and households that park on the street. Asking for a location does not reserve a charger for the applicant: the transportation department says the installations will be open to the public.
Residents can follow the application link in either department’s October 13 announcement. The city will weigh gaps in residential charging, its environmental and equity goals, and whether a site has the electrical and other technical conditions needed for installation. A request is not a construction approval or a guarantee that the proposed block will be chosen.
The agencies expect installation in stages from fall 2027 through 2030. Their notices give a season, rather than an exact closing day or hour, for applications; no precise deadline has been added to this site’s tracker. The linked project/application page returned an access error during this review, so form fields, further eligibility rules and any application-specific cutoff could not be independently checked.
Seattle installations use Transportation Levy funding. City Light says chargers in other parts of its service territory, including Burien, SeaTac, Shoreline and Tukwila, use its separate transportation-electrification budget. That distinction does not establish that every address in those cities qualifies. The additional official transportation announcement is https://sdotblog.seattle.gov/2026/10/13/seattle-expands-affordable-electric-vehicle-charging-network/.