• Re: Trump Suspends $5 Billion Electric Vehicle Charging Station Program

    From Blue Lives Matter@21:1/5 to NoBody on Sun Feb 9 11:49:26 2025
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    On 2/8/2025 7:43 AM, NoBody wrote:
    On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 00:31:17 -0000 (UTC), pothead
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2025-02-07, John Smyth <[email protected]> wrote:
    Keep at it Trump!

    'Trump Suspends $5 Billion Electric Vehicle Charging Station Program'

    <https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/07/trump-suspends-5-billion-electric-vehicle-charging-station-program/>

    'President Donald Trump’s administration halted the $5 billion Biden
    electric vehicle charging program, which has been criticized for its
    poor production of charging stations.

    Emily Biondi, the associate administrator for the Office of Planning,
    Environment, and Realty, in a letter to the state Department of
    Transportation directors on Thursday, said the administration has
    suspended the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program.

    “The new leadership of the Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) has >>> decided to review the policies underlying the implementation of the NEVI >>> Formula Program. Accordingly, the current NEVI Formula Program Guidance
    dated June 11, 2024, and all prior versions of this guidance are
    rescinded,” Biondi wrote.

    “As result of the rescission of the NEVI Formula Program Guidance, FHWA >>> is also immediately suspending the approval of all State Electric
    Vehicle Infrastructure Deployment plans for all fiscal years. Therefore, >>> effective immediately, no new obligations may occur under the NEVI
    Formula Program until the updated final NEVI Formula Program Guidance is >>> issued and new State plans are submitted and approved,” the official
    continued.

    Lawmakers included the $5 billion program in the $1.2 trillion so-called >>> infrastructure bill, more formally known as the Infrastructure
    Investment and Jobs Act.

    The program had aimed to create more than 6,000 charging stations and
    has served as an embarrassment for then-Transportation Secretary Pete
    Buttigieg.

    In September 2023, Buttigieg admitted he had trouble finding an electric >>> charging station while he was traveling on the road.

    In August 2024, then-President Joe Biden claimed the administration had
    built 500,000 charging stations across the country, where, in reality,
    they had built only eight stations as of May 2024.

    In May, Buttigieg was asked by CBS News’s Face the Nation to explain why >>> only eight of the promised EV stations had been built:


    Watch sales of EV tank.
    Good.

    Wait they had sales of them???

    Yes, Dummy:

    Overall, EV sales in the U.S. continue to grow, with more than 2.5 million EVs sold in the past 48 months. In the latest analysis, sales in 2023 were revised upward to 1,212,758 units, a 49% gain from 2022. Sales in 2024 (1,301,411) were higher by 7.3% and accounted for 8.1% of total sales, up from 7.8% share in 2023.

    https://www.coxautoinc.com/market-insights/q4-2024-ev-sales/#:~:text=Overall%2C%20EV%20sales%20in%20the,in%20hybrid%20or%20pure%20EV.

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