Biden Administration Announces $100M Fund To Improve EV Charger Reliability
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The Biden administration has announced $100 million in Federal funding to repair and replace non-operational EV chargers in an effort to make the national charging network more reliable and robust. Dubbed the EV Reliability and Accessibility Accelerator project, the finding will cover both publicly and privately owned EV charging stations that are available to the public without restriction. Applications for access to funding through the new Federal project are due by November 13th, 2023.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Alternative Fuels Data Center Station Locator, roughly 4.1 percent of the network’s 151,506 public charging ports (or 6,261 ports) were temporarily unavailable, as of September 11th, 2023. Initial estimates indicate that the $100 million in Federal funding available via the EV Reliability and Accessibility Accelerator project will cover the repair or replacement costs of all eligible projects. Funding will be awarded through a streamlined application process.
“Charging your electric vehicle should be as easy and convenient as filling up a gas tank – and this investment will make our EV charging network more reliable, full stop,” said Federal Highway Administrator, Shailen Bhatt. “We’re building a bigger EV charging network to keep up with driver demand, and we’re also going to make sure the currently available network is working when you need a charge.”
The $5 billion National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program created under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law includes a 10 percent set-aside in grants to support States and localities in deploying EV charging infrastructure, with the first found of funding focusing on improving reliability of the current network.
“Thanks to President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, we are building up a national EV charging network with chargers Made in the U.S.A.,” said U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm. “Today’s investment is a pivotal step toward revitalizing our current charging infrastructure making EV driving cheaper, more reliable, and more convenient.”
Secretary Granholm recently undertook an EV roadtrip covering 770 miles between Charlotte, North Carolina and Memphis, Tennessee. Reports indicate that Granholm’s EV caravan encountered difficulties recharging during the journey.
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There need’s to be a standardized design for chargers. My father in-law has an EV (Tesla), and we utilized it on a family road trip this summer. Charging and finding charging locations was surprisingly not much an of issue. The issue is that charging costs vary WILDLY from one charger to the next, and there is no indication and display telling you these costs (like gas stations) until after you pull in, hook up, download their app and begin charging. Charging stations should be required to: have a credit card/chip pay reader, clearly display the available charging speed, and most importantly, DISPLAY THE COST PER KWH… Consistency is the #1 goal of quality/reliability, and the current charging network is the wild west.
Only at Tesla. Most other evse machine will tell you the cost. The cost of electricity varies wildly so the cost to charge should also reflect geographic costs. One cannot expect a charge station to lose money by charging the same everywhere
@Buick City
It is happening actually. Everyone is basically agreeing that Tesla is the Charging GOAT and are now just signing on to utilize their Charging Ports called NACS
More taxes for American taxpayer. Unless your name is Hunter. I wish the eggplant in the White House would keep his hands out of my pocket. Don’t have an EV and I don’t want to pay for them. I pay gas tax already, why should anybody have to pay for Ev’s Tax. Do EV buyers pay a gas tax? No
Im at the point where it would be more beneficial to just shut down the government and keep it that way.
Yes when you stop taking oil company writeoffs and subisdies for each well drilled. Cause your gas would be more than 3.50 a gallon or whatever it is if all was paid by you. Fair is fair but I can go either way. Oh and pull our military out of the middle east where if supplies were disrupted you would be paying even more if you did not learn from covid years where suppliers screwed us for heating and gas while they made their highest profits. I would rather control my own energy costs…i.e. if ya go solar after 12 years NO electric bill, out of pocket cost paid by year 6 and now I can easily charge up a car FREE! Your probably a none believer but thats ok…keep paying those prices fully. Eventually someone will own all the refineries because the WORLD is moving on with or without us. So I choose to go hybrid and keep my truck but upgrade one car.
Your “talking point” regurgitation is so easily refuted. Have you heard of Google?
Just because you say it over and over, does not make it true.
How is this legal? Just spend $100 million of the people’s money. Just another act of robbing the US Treasury (Looting and plundering). The taxpayer should have a say. Maybe they should invest $100 million in gas stations, or my business.
It is legal because your Congress appropriated the funds to accomplish this. This is how the Government works as mandated by the Constitution of the United States. As for the taxes, the gas tax is paid at the pump. These taxes vary by state. I don’t know about the electricity where you live, but where I live there are taxes on electricity. Most states levy an annual tax in lieu of the gas tax on BEV and hybrid owners. In some states, the EV tax is greater than the gas tax.
Congress has not appropriated the funds. By the way the taxes paid by EV owners do not cover the cost incurred and should be increased. Also, there is no basis to issue buyers an EV credit on purchase. Why subsidizes? If you want to buy an EV buy one but subsidies distort the market and just transfer money to certain individuals. They say you should treat everyone equal. Either give a credit on all vehicle purchases or no credits. I vote for no credits.
Simply not true. Some states charge a premium for ev plates but most do not. Example, I live in Fl. Pay the same for my plates as any ICE vehicle. i pay zero road tax with my ev Should I pay more, yes and I suspect that will happen at some time
Money money money money……mooooooneeeeeey……
No doubt the funds will go to Bunter Hiden EV Charging Stationyouknowthething Company of Kvvviv Ukraine LLC SaDeCV Ltd…….
January 20, 2024 can’t get here soon enough. Hopefully it’s Trump or Kennedy getting sworn in. 🤞
Actually, it would be 1/20/2025. We’ll vote in November 2024.
Joe G – you’re correct. It was a typo or I am just extremely anxious and can’t wait. Ha ha ha
There ya go… let’s throw more tax payer money against the EV wall and see what sticks…
Why am I paying for this? It is misuse of tax dollars!
So lets see, we give them money to install them and now they want us to pay them to maintain them. How about they dont get any money unless they agree to maintain them at some minimal level and if they dont they give the tax payer money back. American businesses at their best…screw the tax payer any way they can. I would like to think businesses exist for humans not humans for businesses because without us they have no reason to exist.
Another 100 million wasted, reminds me of all the money that was spent on COVID programs to help businesses. While it helped some businesses, the majority of the money was stolen because there was no audit trail. Fill out a form, and get a check. The article states “Funding will be awarded through a streamlined application process.” Fill out a form, and get a check. Who’s going to follow up to make sure these charging stations were repaired? Is there going to be an audit trail to track where the money went and how it was spent? No! Just like the billions of money being sent to Ukraine. No one in our government can tell you where or how those billions are spent. What I find ironic is we as citizens send in our tax returns every year and the IRS reviews and if any flags are raised there is an audit performed. Why aren’t audits performed on the money our government gives away in these programs or to other countries? We all know why.