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3 Years After Allocating $5B for EV Chargers, 17 Stations Completed

18 points by fortran77 6 hours ago | 9 comments

pornel 5 hours ago

> likeliest group of people to own an EV […] These people do not live in “disadvantaged communities.”

Isn't that the whole point? Early EV adopters are already creating a demand in richer areas, and that can be fulfilled by commercial suppliers. It's the poor areas that have a chicken-egg problem. EVs have to get cheaper, but that requires a mass-market demand for non-luxury vehicles. But people won't consider buying an EV if the infrastructure is not there, and no business will invest in chargers where there are no EV owners.

vannevar 5 hours ago

Yes. While it's true that most EV owners now are relatively affluent, there are a lot of sub-$10K used EVs on the market and if chargers are available in disadvantaged communities, those used EVs become a much more viable option.

northhanover 4 hours ago

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vannevar 5 hours ago

A better and more informative (albeit older) article can be found here: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/05/congress-ev-charger...

According to this article, while the chargers are funded by the federal government, the actual projects are administered by the states. So not so much a problem with the Biden administration as it is a problem with state governments.

melling 4 hours ago

500,000 chargers queued up and 17 were built in 3 years.

It’s a bit surprising people are hearing this story for the first time. It’s been thrown around for the past year.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/03/28/...

https://www.americanenergyalliance.org/2024/06/biden-spends-...

mechagodzilla 6 hours ago

That's a terrible blog post that only cites a WSJ opinion piece.

uxp100 5 hours ago

I think it is likely true that only 17 chargers have been built so far. The government subsidized chargers near me were only recently had their locations announced. It is possible the installation could get done fairly quickly now that sites are chosen.

What is relevant is not $5B so much as how much of that $5B has been used already as several commentators on the (better than I would expected for the National Review) comments section of that page note.

maxerickson 5 hours ago

Yeah, there's a link on the article that talks about stuff finishing planning this summer.

https://driveelectric.gov/news/q3-2024-nevi-quarterly-update

melling 6 hours ago

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