President Joe Biden has announced his approval of a revised version of the bipartisan infrastructure bill, which will sideline funds to set up a national EV charging network.
Unveiled Thursday, the new Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework proposes spending a total of $1.2 trillion over eight years to modernize America’s infrastructure. This will include a new national EV charging network, which will be built “along highways and in rural and disadvantaged communities.” According to WhiteHouse.gov, this will represent the largest investment in EV infrastructure in American history and will accomplish President Biden’s goal of building 500,000 EV chargers nationwide.
In addition to the EV charging network, the bill will also set aside $7.5 billion to “electrify thousands of school and transit buses across the country.” The White House says electric busses will “reduce harmful emissions,” in metropolitan areas and also help “drive domestic manufacturing of zero emission vehicles and components.” Biden said he initially wanted to set aside $15 billion to electrify America’s bus fleets, but settled for $7.5 billion in order to move the bipartisan bill along.
The plan will also set aside $109 billion to revamp roads and bridges and $25 billion to improve America’s airports. Another $49 billion will go toward various public transit projects, while $66 billion has been set aside for miscellaneous freight and passenger rail upgrades. High speed internet upgrades are mentioned in the proposal, with the Biden Adminsitration hoping to eventually “connect every American to reliable high-speed internet,” and “drive down prices for internet service and close the digital divide.”
The infrastructure proposal first set forth by the Biden Administration, the American Jobs Plan, included $100 billion in subsidies for EV buyers. This revised version does not include any additional incentives for EV purchases, with Biden conceding that this plan is smaller and contains less than his initial $2.2 trillion proposal. It’s unclear if the Biden Administration still plans to pursue new purchase subsidies for EV buyers.
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It hasn’t been passed yet. Also Pelosi has more or less said it’s DOA in the house.
Gurantee it won’t create many jobs since unless they stop giving out free money. Were are they going to get all the electricity and battery for these places? Solar and wind won’t be able to do it.
Who wants to be how many of them like the weigh stations will be closed down with in a few years because of the cost and they don’t work.
I’m sorry, but, what?! Nothing you said came close to being a coherent thought.
It must be Mr. President himself!
Or one of the stupids Loler!
I picked thru what you said there. I speak “Trucker”. Your probably a long haul trucker. I have great respect for that profession. But with that said, your comment was so stupid that by just reading it, I also became stupid. I’ve Lost the ability to do simple math or put a coherent thought together. Please don’t ever comment again. I have to go relearn now.
Incentives can make things easier, but the technology just isn’t mature enough to make it mainstream.
We need to stop incentives. They are just away to increase taxes on people who don’t want it. Most incentives are a waste of money.
Incentives don’t mean a thing to the elderly, we are in the tax bracket where we don’t file taxes so getting a credit on our taxes doesn’t help us at all. So as long as the manufacturers use the tax credit as an incentive and until the infrastructure is in place and all the glitches are worked out and it doesn’t take any longer to recharge than it takes to refill the gas tank I will consider EVs a pipe dream. ICE will be around many years to come, through the rest of my life and most likely through the lifetime of anyone 35 years old or older.
If they don’t just make gas so expensive you can’t afford it thus driving you to EV. True that technology is not really there yet. Range of 300 miles is not too bad but if you can’t get 80 percent charge or better in ten minutes or less then it’s not real convenient.
Batteries don’t totally solve the pollution problem either but they want you to think that. Only thing it does is stop the burning of fossil fuels in vehicles. Still going to burn it to generate electricity unless we decide to expand nuclear power.
Oh we can’t use nuclear, that’s not green! Only solar and since the sun only shines in the day and sometimes it’s obscured by overcast skies we can’t really count on that, and wind, some places near the coast it blows almost constantly. Outside right now there’s not a leaf moving. Oh my we can’t count on that 100% of the time. As I said in my original comment, politicians come up with great ideas they just quit thinking at that point and flap their lips without any other thoughts.
Good points. If only we had a way to store power produced by solar and wind energy so that we don’t have to use it immediately. Oh, wait, we do.
The problem with nuclear power plants is that they produce more radioactive material than existed before.
And radioactivity is detriment to your health.
I want to put some in the middle of nowhere,can I get money for gas pumps and a little c-store also? Will it help that I have more Indian blood than Liz Warren?
budlar
Texas just appropriated $250 million for a wall in the middle of nowhere. Early this century, republican budgets were ridiculed for highway to nowhere and bridge to nowhere appropriations. Why do you republicans want to build so much stuff in the middle of nowhere, when you guys can’t maintain the infrastructure you already have?
PG
I have no political affiliation I just want a retirement business in a safe rural area i currently live in racial unrest that was looted and burnt so I want a change to peace and quiet and if I can get free stuff and provide a public service why not?
budlar
If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, It’s a duck.
You claim to be non partisan, but you have all the republican talking points down.
Is that like you Democrats putting charging stations in impoverished areas where you claim the poor can’t find a ride to a polling place?
Larry
In the cities, no one should be more than a few blocks from a poling place. If they need a ride that means theirs not enough places to vote.
But he has a “plan” man! Plans are cool but how you execute those plans is cooler
We need a nationalized system of EV charging stations, akin to the network of Pemex petrol stations in Mexico. That way, Half of them will be broken, people won’t travel and we can all breathe clean air!!
The problem with every plan the politicians come up with, they never think of what the consequences of their plan will be, I.e. OSHA,EPA,NAFTA just to name a few.
Uhm….like a regulated utility? But government owned? Competing with private investment networks? Sounds like Biden didn’t even try to think this through.
The federal highway system could use some electric chargers at rest stops. Space them a hundred miles apart. Some states have larger rest stops with gift shops and restaurants. Putting chargers at these places where you spend 45-minutes is easy. Putting a charger at desolate rest stop where there’s only a toilet, water fountain and map would be nice. In time truck stops will have chargers.
What a joke, Charging station that the uniformed EV people will just love but as usual the people will be hit with increased taxes to put this EV stations in. How about all of the power company’s put then in an it will then be an EV Electric Station and then you pay as you would at a gas station. EV’s will never get it done.
All this off-topic political bs has no place here.
Does this site not have any moderators?
The 2nd picture is of ”the big guy” what do you expect?
10% goes to the big guy.
They can’t afford to pay moderators. It seems they mostly pay for people to write filler articles like new paint colors for 2021 models as the 2022 models are about to launch. Gotta get that ad revenue.
It will be great while you’re waiting around for a charge you can get mugged. Then when it’s charged up, they take off in your ride.
It’s the Biden train to nowhere.
Fools, the ‘bipartisan’ group includes only 5 republicans and grants “enhanced policing powers” to the IRS. Another boon for the fed’s favored corporations at a great expense to small business and tax payers. Disastrous!
Paying for your electric vehicle is NOT MY JOB. You want it, you cover ALL THE COSTS.
Dan, why don’t you apply the same logic to gas? We should be ending ALL subsidies to the oil industry.
What subsidies do oil companies get?
Are you suggesting the government is doing the drilling and formulating?
Electric vehicles are capable and battery life will increase as the technology advances. Incentives are a good thing to help the planet slow global warming. The gas, coal, and oil industry has had it’s day and it will be drawing to a close. EV’s were some of the first vehicles and they are not a liberal plot to destroy jobs. If people worried more about getting a good education and advanced training rather than more concerned about watching football or baseball then lost jobs with ICE will be available.
Except that I think that BEV (Battery Electric Vehicles) are not the future, since the energy density of even the best battery is still too high.
I think it is better to produce the electric energy for the electric motor while driving, by a fuel cell with hydrogen.
Especially heavier vehicles like buses and trucks.
You must be a real rocket scientist too. God controls the planet, not Al Gore you nimrod.
Jesus Christ, he’s doing a bad job!
Every action has a consequence and the move to EV’s is no exception. EV’s are set on a platform of heavy toxic batteries. I work in an electronics industry that utilizes building plant batteries for backup. They’re extremely hazardous and difficult to dispose of or recycle. If they catch on fire, the fire department won’t touch them due to the toxicity of them. What happens if you lose power like they did in Texas or California rations electricity. Electric charging stations are $100,000+ compared to $20,000 for pumps. It takes an hour to charge a car 80% that can travel 300 miles? Basically 20% of your time is charging your EV. You lose revenue for funding highway upkeep because gas taxes are gone.
EV’s have a place in urban day to day driving. But for states like CA to tell automakers they can’t sell an ICE after 2035 is overstepping. Let the free market dictate this.
It already exists. There are level 1 chargers everywhere. And the govt will fleece the trillions for a network that will under perform, or be lvl 2 at best and non-upgradable. “Oh, that will be another 5 trillion”. Get out of private enterprise.
No chargers of any type in our town. Better know what your talking about before flapping your lips.
Do you not know what a level 1 charger is? It is a 110v charger, and the type that plugs into a standard wall outlet. Yes they are everywhere, as every electric vehicle comes with one to charge at home. You can also have a level 2 charger installed. There is also a network of chargers built up at this point to be viable, it’s just a matter of time until it is built up even more. Your argument is flawed, as it assumes electric chargers are needed in every town to be viable, when they don’t, as most people charge at home. Even if it were accurate, it would only mean it is even more imperative to build up the network.
Also, the more electric businesses, the more the govt can collect in generation “not taxes, but FEES”. Ever look at the addl fees on electric bills?
10% for the big guy…… Adds up when you are wasting trillions.
Of course the author of this article FAILED to mention the severely cognitively compromised President you all “elected” walked back this well intentioned sensible compromise deal focused solely on PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE only THREE hours after he endorsed it. Dementia Joe threw all the Dems & Repubs working on this long overdue sane, middle of the road, Legislation under the bus in one of the most embarrassing moments from any recent Administration. All hail to the far left “Progressives” in charge, as ALL of you were warned about profusely.
By bi-partisan…you mean Democrats and a handful of rino’s, right.
I’m sure everyone knows electric vehicles are interim vehicles. Probably not. Electric vehicles are a pathway to hydrogen vehicles. The electric drivetrain is similar with electric motors, thus electric is the starting place. With hydrogen you will have greater distance than fossil fuels and the cleanliness of electric.
No doubt someone will say “Whoa! I’m not going to drive a hydrogen bomb!” Then, others will say “Why are we wasting water to power cars?”
Well, change takes time, acceptance and reasoning.
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Yeah, this is going to end well. Vandalized, and destroyed charging stations. FIst fights breaking out because of the time it will take to charge. The system will fall into disrepair and with the labor shortage looking to be for a period of time good look at finding people to care for these. This is a waste of money, taxpayer money, if this is the future and it is so great then why are investors, and electric monopolies seizing the opportunity to make money. There is no “ROI” or “ROE” to be had and if the government is creating this we have gone from a free-market society to a state-managed central economy. This is a slippery slope and a dangerous line to cross for the government. Things are going to get worse and crazy this EV is nothing more than political motivation, and a farce, let the consumer decide with the wallets what they want, do not force.