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Remember Biden’s trillion dollar spending plan?<\/p>\n
I know, which one? This is the 2021 edition, to narrow it down.<\/p>\n
Two years ago, the US government provided $7.5bn to create a national network of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations.<\/p>\n
The money came from the $1 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, signed by President Joe Biden in November 2021, to build 500,000 EV chargers by 2030.<\/p>\n
Mr Biden wants 50 per cent of all new vehicle sales to be electric by 2030 – a big leap from their current 7.6 per cent share of the total US vehicle market. Earlier this month, his administration announced stricter emissions standards for passenger vehicles to help spur that transition.<\/p>\n
But getting stranded without a charge remains a major hurdle for many potential EV buyers. About 80 per cent of respondents in a 2023 survey from AP-NORC and the University of Chicago cited concerns about a lack of charging stations as a reason not to buy electric.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Well, all those charging stations should certainly alleviate that anxiety. Especially at the frantic pace at which they are being built in the first two years.<\/p>\n
They’ve built seven. Not 700, not 7,000…seven.<\/p>\n
The feds say they are taking it slow to avoid mistakes and overruns… I’m pretty sure the current spokeswhatever didn’t come from the F-35 program, no matter HOW much hesheit sounds like it.<\/p>\n
The government also hopes that the public-funded charging station rollout will spur the private sector as has been the case when it comes to renewable energy and battery storage. Companies including Walmart, Uber, Zipcar, and the National Automobile Dealers Association have promised to expand their charging networks.<\/p>\n
However, still more will be needed, experts have said. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory at the US Department of Energy reported last year that the US will need 1.2 million public chargers by 2030 to support the massive increase in electric cars.\u00a0 The Independent<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So if you build it they will come, eh? Troops living in squalor, shortfalls in key amuunition stockpiles…but we’re working HARD on getting charging stations built for that anticipated, what, 700% increase in buying EVs\u00a0 they say will happen in less time than the next good crop of cicadas?<\/p>\n
Maybe in the next six years dealers will at least clear the overage in EVs on their lots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"