Biden Admin Threw Billions At EV Charging Stations — But Only A Handful Have Been Built
dailycaller.com | 4/1/2024 | Nick PopeThe Biden administration’s well-funded push to build out a national network of electric vehicle (EV) chargers has so far resulted in only a handful of installations, according to The Washington Post.
The bipartisan infrastructure bill of 2021 allotted $7.5 billion to subsidize thousands of EV chargers to help the administration’s goal of having EVs constitute 50% of all new cars sold in 2030, but only seven stations in total have been built in four states to date, according to the Post. The slow rollout of the EV charger funding is unfolding as the Biden administration has recently issued stringent emissions standards for light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles that will result in significant increases of EV sales for all three classes of vehicle.
Two years after the infrastructure bill became law, it has so far been responsible for just 38 operational individual charging spots across the U.S., according to the Post. The open stations are located in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and Hawaii, and construction of more stations is underway in four other states.
Not shocking – there’s no infrastructure for that sort of thing…
File this one under current events…
That is only $205,263,157.89 per station. Pretty good for government work.
A couple of these recently made the news up here near Seattle. Spent $500,000+ for two charges. Within hours of opening them to the public, all the cords were cut and removed. After having to completely replace both chargers (another $500k), the cords were once again cut and removed within hours of opening. Sensible people blamed the rampant homeless/junky population seeing an easy shot at free copper to scrap (common thing around here). Locals however blamed “MAGA republicans who can’t accept progress”.
Maybe it was MAGA republicans who can’t accept progress and also like to make extra money selling scrap copper.
They better put Build Back Buttguy on the case..