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In a movement that everyone saw coming, the Trump administration has drawn the plug on the national EV chargers of the taxpayer. The $ 5 billion program that should see that electric car chargers would see interstates along coast to coast. Although the plan came with many promises in advance, it ended and now it probably doesn’t seem to be no longer.
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Under the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program, fast EV chargers would be stationed at 50 miles steps in some areas, making traveling by electric vehicle facilitated over longer distances.
At least that was the idea. How practically the plan was questioned from the start. After all, it was difficult to get that kind of electrical current to some areas, promising enormous costs and difficult maintenance.
An official letter from the Federal Highway Administration makes it clear that the Department of Transportation Leadership is revising the policy for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program. How long that will take and what will happen on the other side is not clear.
What is clear is in the meantime that there are no approvals for EV charging plans of the different states.
For many, between these and increasing emission standards to the point that consumers were forced to buy an EV, this program looked more like tyranny. But proponents of electric cars have claimed that they are needed to get more people interested in buying a vehicle that connects instead of a vehicle that uses gas.
Some hope that a legal challenge will lead to the freezing of these EV charger funds is reversed. It is possible that the administration could do that in itself and roll out new guidelines for the program. Many things can happen, so we just have to wait and see how everything is going.
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