President Joe Biden promised us that he was going to create a coast-to-coast network of electric vehicle chargers. That hasn’t happened. You might remember back in September when Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm attempted to do a four-day electric car caravan from Charlotte, North Carolina to Memphis, Tennessee to show off how well the U.S. charging infrastructure is set up in the United States. She ended up stranded in Georgia when her caravan was unable to find enough plugs to charge itself.
Politico is reporting that even though Congress allocated $7.5 billion to make that nationwide charging network a reality, not a single charger has been installed under the program.
‘Congress provided $7.5B for electric vehicle chargers. Built so far: Zero.’ ‘Two years later, the program has yet to install a single charger.’ From @politico https://t.co/0PY4VNcjbO
— Byron York (@ByronYork) December 5, 2023
Politico reports:
Consumer demand for electric vehicles is rising in the United States, necessitating six times as many chargers on its roads by the end of the decade, according to federal estimates. But not a single charger funded by the bipartisan infrastructure law has come online…
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