Biden’s $7.5 billion investment in EV charging has only produced 7 stations in two years
Biden’s $7.5 billion investment in EV charging has only produced 7 stations in two years
The network of fast chargers promised by the Biden administration has had a painfully slow rollout.
"Public-Private Partnership" and it's consequences
Related: The China Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Promotion Alliance, abbreviated as EVCIPA, has published a report this week that announces that the country has successfully built 87,000 new public EV charging stations across the country in just only the month of May 2022, compared YoY to 2021, the number of EV charging stations has increased by 60.5%.
Some very suspect math and contradictory claims in that article.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Of that, $5 billion was allocated to individual states in so-called “formula funding” to build a network of fast chargers along major highways in the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure, or NEVI, program.
Last month, Republican members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to the Biden administration with a list of questions about the slow rollout of EV chargers.
“We have significant concerns that under your efforts American taxpayer dollars are being woefully mismanaged,” wrote Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) and Morgan Griffith (R-Va.).
EV policy experts say those requirements are critical to building a good nationwide charging program — but also slow down the build-out of the chargers.
Nigro points out that each charging spot will require the same maximum power as around 20 homes — a huge lift for local utilities not used to installing chargers.
But the chargers from the NEVI program would increase the country’s fast charging capacity by around 50 percent — a crucial step to alleviating “range anxiety” and helping Americans shift into battery electric cars.
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I can tell you that even tesla's direct ev station installs can sit on hold for over a year after the final construction drawings are done and permitting has been approved. So, this isn't a huge surprise to me, and should get better with time.
It's taking longer to get moving than anyone thought but as the article notes it should pick up speed. Downside of a de-centralized economy I guess.