Two more clusters of electric vehicle charging stations are coming to Manteca.

*Electrify America is installing 10 EV chargers along Hulsey Way just south of Applebee’s in Spreckels Park where you will find a Tesla Supercharging station near Target.

*Manteca’s third Tesla Supercharger station is being installed by Sizzler, Taco Bell, and McDonald’s on the northeast corner the Airport Way and 120 Bypass.

 When it is completed, Manteca will have the third most Tesla superchargers in the Northern San Joaquin Valley trailing Modesto with four.

The new Tesla supercharger will have 16 chargers.

Manteca’s first gas station that will actually have EV chargers in place instead of just being wired for them will be built on the southeast corner of Lathrop and Union roads.

Developers are getting ready to build a 5,200 square-foot Circle K convenience store with 12 fueling pumps.

It will also include building Manteca’s second Auto Zone auto parts store that will occupy a 6,816 square-foot building.

The owner plans to have six EV charging stations as part of the project dubbed Manteca Veterans’ Plaza.

In addition, the small retail development will not rely on PG&E to light its sign along Lathrop Road. The free-standing sign will be solar powered.

Commercial chargers aren’t all that are being installed.

 New apartment complexes are installing EV chargers for residents.

The first to do so was The Atherton, a 428-unit apartment complex just east of Bass Pro Shops.

It is one of four apartment complexes in Manteca that currently boast they have EV chargers as amenities.

And to the west across Union Road is Living Spaces.

Although it doesn’t have an EV charger in sight, it could easily become the biggest location to charge an electric vehicle.

That’s because 14 percent of its 456 parking spaces — 64 — have been prewired for the installation of EV chargers.

As EV numbers grow, so do the places to charge them including in Manteca.

Manteca has come a long way since the first EV chargers in the city were installed as part of the $7.3 million transit station built in 2013 at Moffat Boulevard and South Main Street. Those chargers are still the only public ones that get their electricity from solar panels that were installed over 51 of the complex’s 100 parking spaces.

But, as the city’s climate action plan that is now being developed notes, it is not enough.

The climate action plan is the city’s blueprint for its overall efforts for Manteca to reach state imposed greenhouse gas reductions.

Among the EV charger related goals in the plan are:

* Targeting the installation of EV charging stations capable of charging electric trucks along highway corridors.

*Seeking funds to support electric vehicle charging technology. 

*Requiring charging stations as part of new development.

*Updating the Municipal Code to require identify potential sites for  electric vehicle charging stations within the city limits.

*Targeting the installation of at least five electric vehicle charging stations by the year 2030 and at least 10 by the year 2045.

*Establishing targets by 2025 for the number of EV charging stations installed at public parking areas.

*Requiring the installation of electric vehicle charging stations at all new municipal facilities that include vehicle parking.

*Requiring the city to identify existing municipal facilities where electric vehicle charging stations could be installed.

*Exempting EVs from payment of parking fees to encourage use of EVs within the city should the city construct or operate areas with paid parking.

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com