The EV charging situation in the US is about to suck a little less
by Andrew J. Hawkins from The Verge - All Posts on (#63MWQ)
Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge We're about to see a lot more electric vehicle chargers in the US.
The Biden administration just announced the approval of $900 million in funding to 35 states to install EV chargers across approximately 53,000 miles of highway across the country - the first tranche from a $5 billion pot of money that was included as part of the bipartisan infrastructure bill last year.
That means money is about to start flowing to the states to enact their plans to install thousands of new EV chargers, a crucial link in the Biden administration's goal of getting more people to switch to plug-in vehicles. The president has said he wants to build 500,000 chargers across the US by 2030 in the hopes that an improved charging infrastructure will make EVs a...