Yeah there’s a couple of Meijer’s with huge Tesla superchargers lots, which will be nice if my id.4 gets access this or next year, but with Musk killing off that team, will it happen?
Right now I have 1 L3 (blink) charging area within 5 miles of me, another (evgo) about 10-15 miles away, and then one more EvGo about 20 miles away. Apparently there are two under construction closer to me but they’re been that way for months on plugshare. There is an EA station if I go further and get on the turnpike.
Thankfully I can L1 charging can take of most of my needs until I can afford to install a L2 EVSE probably with next year’s tax refund.
I have a hard time believing any news on this site. Biden could be trying to get more but who knows what his opposition is doing. Are the Republicans stopping him or is he just spewing lies?
We really need more information for a post like this.
Nigro says that the process — states have to submit plans to the Biden administration for approval, solicit bids on the work, and then award funds — has taken much of the first two years since the funding was approved. “I expect it to go much faster in 2024,” he added.
“We are building a national EV charging network from scratch, and we want to get it right,” a spokesperson for the Federal Highway Administration said in an email. “After developing program guidance and partnering with states to guide implementation plans, we are hitting our stride as states move quickly to bring NEVI stations online.”
They aren’t just writing blank checks with no oversight and no reporting on the outcome of what happens with that money? What kind of government are they running!?
Eh, I think this is excusing too much. There’s a lot of territory between “writing blank checks with no oversight and reporting” and “a process so anal, only 7 EV chargers are built nationwide over two years”.
The way to get charging right is to just build a ton and figure out what works by what gets used. No amount of studying and planning is going to get a charging network right the first try.
Getting paywalled. Does the article say anything about what the cost for the stations is? Like most subsidized infrastructure, I’m guessing that the taxpayers have paid well over market value for the 7 charging stations.
Nothing wrong with short articles. It’s better than sifting through paragraphs of “Electric cars are an innovative technology that take many of the featues of…” just to get to the relevant content.
Better than spreading one contiguous body of content across five tweets too, IMO.
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