This is the best summary I could come up with:
President Biden has long vowed to build 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations in the United States by 2030.
Those stations, the White House said, would help Americans feel confident purchasing and driving electric cars, and help the country cut carbon pollution.
But now, more than two years after Congress allocated $7.5 billion to help build out those stations, only 7 EV charging stations are operational across four states.
And as the Biden administration rolls out its new rules for emissions from cars and trucks — which will require a lot more electric cars and hybrids on the road — the sluggish build-out could slow the transition to electric cars.
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Getting paywalled. Does the article say anything about what the cost for the stations is? Like most subsidized infrastructure, I’m guessing that the taxpayers have paid well over market value for the 7 charging stations.
Is this whole article two paragraphs? Genuine question because that’s all that’s loading for me. Thanks for providing a non paywalled link
I tried with archive.org, but I have a better solution. I will message you privately.
“The original article contains 109 words”
When your entire article can fit in a few tweets, maybe you shouldn’t publish it.
Nothing wrong with short articles. It’s better than sifting through paragraphs of “Electric cars are an innovative technology that take many of the featues of…” just to get to the relevant content.
Better than spreading one contiguous body of content across five tweets too, IMO.
I don’t see the problem with being concise.
Do we need extra charging stations when they seem plentiful at every grocery store/Walmart/Target?
Beyond a shadow of a doubt yes. More charging capacity is sorely needed
I guess it probably depends on where you live?
Yeah there’s a couple of Meijer’s with huge Tesla superchargers lots, which will be nice if my id.4 gets access this or next year, but with Musk killing off that team, will it happen?
Right now I have 1 L3 (blink) charging area within 5 miles of me, another (evgo) about 10-15 miles away, and then one more EvGo about 20 miles away. Apparently there are two under construction closer to me but they’re been that way for months on plugshare. There is an EA station if I go further and get on the turnpike.
Thankfully I can L1 charging can take of most of my needs until I can afford to install a L2 EVSE probably with next year’s tax refund.
I have a hard time believing any news on this site. Biden could be trying to get more but who knows what his opposition is doing. Are the Republicans stopping him or is he just spewing lies?
We really need more information for a post like this.
The money was allocated but isn’t yet gone. Private industry hasn’t spent what was allocated
It’s more about bureaucratic inefficiency than political opposition. Common story in US infrastructure.
Nigro says that the process — states have to submit plans to the Biden administration for approval, solicit bids on the work, and then award funds — has taken much of the first two years since the funding was approved. “I expect it to go much faster in 2024,” he added.
“We are building a national EV charging network from scratch, and we want to get it right,” a spokesperson for the Federal Highway Administration said in an email. “After developing program guidance and partnering with states to guide implementation plans, we are hitting our stride as states move quickly to bring NEVI stations online.”
They aren’t just writing blank checks with no oversight and no reporting on the outcome of what happens with that money? What kind of government are they running!?
Eh, I think this is excusing too much. There’s a lot of territory between “writing blank checks with no oversight and reporting” and “a process so anal, only 7 EV chargers are built nationwide over two years”.
Maybe they finally learned from the fiasco of the rural broadband subsidies.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/05/congress-ev-chargers-billions-00129996
A little older, but gives more of an overview. A lot of it is tied up in state reluctance to implement.
