The 500,000 Nationwide EV Charger Network Is A $7.5 Billion Charade
by Geoffrey Pohanka 15 hours ago in Electric Vehicles, News and Opinion Reading Time: 3 mins read
The word charade has several meanings, including an act or event that is false (Cambridge Dictionary), something done just for show (vocabulary.com), or a situation in which people pretend that something is true when it is not (Oxford Learner’s Dictionary). [emphasis, links added]
The charade I refer to is President Biden’s $7.5 billion investment to install 500,000 electric charging stations along America’s highways by 2030.
A reliable and convenient public EV charging infrastructure is critical to achieving the president’s goal of meeting the recent EPA CO2 emission regulation that requires nearly 72% of U.S. new light vehicle sales to be fully electric or plug-in hybrid by 2032.
Without diving deeper into the announcement, one would likely assume that $7.5 billion is sufficient to construct the 500,000 charging stations, one every 50 miles along the nation’s highways.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/the-500000-nationwide-ev-charger-network-is-a-7-5-billion-charade/
