The Biden-Harris Administration has announced $623 million in grants under the Bipartisan Infrastructure law to help expand the EV charging network and hydrogen refueling stations in the U.S. The initiative aims to support the construction of 7,500 electric vehicle charging stations across the U.S. in pursuit of Biden Administration’s goal of creating at least 500,000 public charging stations by 2030, while creating new jobs and facilitating the transition to all-electric transportation. Funding will support the construction of EV chargers at major travel corridors as well as community projects.
“America led the arrival of the automotive era, and now we have a chance to lead the world in the EV revolution – securing jobs, savings, and benefits for Americans in the process,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. “This funding will help ensure that EV chargers are accessible, reliable, and convenient for American drivers, while creating jobs in charger manufacturing, installation, and maintenance for American workers.”
The grants were announced as part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s $2.5 billion Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Discretionary Grant Program, and will fund 47 new electric vehicle charging and alternative-fueling infrastructure projects in 22 states and Puerto Rico. Funds include $312 million for 11 Alternative Fuel Corridor projects to fill in gaps in the national charging and alternative fueling network, as well as $311 million for 36 community projects that will invest in new EV charging and hydrogen fuel infrastructure in urban and rural communities, including two Indian Tribes in Alaska and Arizona.
Some of the projects selected include:
“Every community across the nation deserves access to convenient and reliable clean transportation,” said U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm. “The Biden-Harris Administration is bringing an accessible, made-in-America charging network into thousands of communities while cutting the carbon pollution that is driving the climate crisis.”
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I know this will be an unpopular post but here goes.
If I was the Government I would award Tesla the full budget for Superchargers for the first two years of the program. I would then make the rest of the companies prove in tests that they can attain Tesla 97% operational success to get them the grants. Once they prove they can provide the same service reliability as Tesla I would then drop Tesla funding to a pretty low percentage and give the rest of the companies the majority of the money for the next two years to hep them catch up.
Then divide it up however is fair to the Tax payers after those first four years.
This will provide two things.
Tesla will build and instal their far superior Chargers in breakneck speed which will help the costumers short and long term.
And it provides time to the rest of them to not offer half baked systems that won't work just to get Government funds.
Customers need to have chargers that they can trust.
I understand what you are after, but I wonder if a more effective solution would be to tie a large portion of the grant money to the total kWh delivered to vehicles. Spreading the money over a few years of payback would let the program get more EVSE installed earlier, and the grantees would be incentivised to keep them working.
Yes, give more to Elon. Who just said if he doesn't own at least 25% of tesla, he'll do AI development elsewhere. Yeah, the CEO who thinks he IS the company. Yes, give that company more, because we need to support sociopaths.
Sure am glad that the government is focusing on putting EV chargers in disadvantaged areas. No doubt the lack of chargers has stymied poor people from lining up to buy new high-priced EVs.
Yeah another dumb move by Bribem.
EV’s have peaked, it seems that just about everyone who wants one has one. I really think it’s a niche market irregardless of what MaryJoe says. I don’t know anyone who wants one.
Stop bidenflation! Stop adding to the 34trillion debt! Just stop! If people want it, then JP Morgan and Citi banks will beat down a path to fund it. The only people who want it are the Chinese who make the batteries who paid off Brandon to enrich themselves.
Inflation started under trump. Just exactly what did you think printing massive amounts of money (QE) and setting interest rates to 0 did? Inflation is a lagging indicator, it will take til 2030 to work thru all the money printed in QE. Finally the fed has raised rates, and hopefully for quite a bit longer. Markets keep thinking cuts are coming next week. Me thinks not. As to debt, well Clinton managed to actually start paying it down until Bush decided we absolutely had to have tax cuts. And well, here we are.
@mkAtx
Inflation started under Trump because of Covid and the DemacRATS!!! Our best economy EVER was under Trump. Pushing this EV nonsense that for #1 no one can afford! #2 no one wants them because of the headaches of trying a find a place to charge!! #3 the time to charge is outlandish compared to 5 minutes to fill your car up now....I could go on and on, on how environmentally harmful fracking for the minerals for the batteries is terrible for the environment!! But DemocRats don't want to talk about that. They just want their share of the billions that is being dumped into their laps by pushing this nonsense. Complete waste of hard working taxpayers money!!!!!!! SMFH
If the market demanded these chargers, someone would build them. This is just another make-work project and someone's pockets are getting lined.
That’s what Dims do best, waste our money!
Dims don’t understand that the government has no money of its own. It has our money and whatever it decides to print.
Solyndra 2.0?
You and momolos entirely miss the point I think. The government should NEVER encourage a monopoly. In fact, they generally try to break them up. The government should be subsidizing the competitors to make them more competitive. Remember tesla is already getting massive, absolutely massive carbon credits. To hand over a massive payday to tesla to turn them into a monopoly is stupid, a word I try not to use on social media. But it is what it is in this case.