This is what’s known as the EV “infrastructure problem.” From Tom Ozimek at The Epoch Times via zerohedge.com:
President Joe Biden’s 2021 infrastructure bill boasts a $7.5 billion investment in electric vehicle (EV) chargers, and his administration insists the country is “on track” to install over a million public chargers by the end of the decade—but reports indicate that so far not a single one has actually been built.
A key part of the Biden administration’s push to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 is to sharply expand the nation’s charging infrastructure for plug-in EVs in order to align with President Biden’s goal of having half of all new vehicles sold in the United States to be electric by 2030.
At the forefront of this effort is the federal government’s commitment to pour in $7.5 billion as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law) to build 1.2 million public chargers to keep up with what the White House said over the summer was rapidly growing demand for EVs.
The $7.5 billion federal funding plan for EV chargers consists of the $5 billion National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program and the $2.5 billion Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program, both of which are being administered through agencies affiliated with the Department of Transportation (DOT).
However, despite more than $2 billion of the $7.5 billion in federal EV charger funding already authorized under the programs, not even half of states have started to take bids from contractors for construction—and not a single new public charger has been built.
This just in from Solyndra…si se puede!
A great deal on solar panels in the dumpster out back.
Always make sure Big Guy gets a cut of that Uncle Sugar fresh printing press lucre.
Note to taxpayer serfs, no talk, work.