Tesla, other EV companies ask for federal investment in heavy-duty truck charging
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla, along with other electric vehicle companies and environmental groups, asked the Biden administration to invest in charging infrastructure for electric buses, trucks, and other medium- and heavy-duty vehicles.
The groups want the administration to allocate 10 percent of the money for electric vehicle charging in the bipartisan infrastructure bill signed last November - a pot that includes $7.5 billion - to go toward infrastructure for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, they said in a letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg this week.
Most public EV charging infrastructure has been designed and built with passenger vehicles in mind," the letter, also signed by the Environmental Law...