Trump Policies Push Maryland To Unplug Its EV Mandate – Dem Gov. admits EV mandate of 43% of all 2027 cars sold must be electric ‘will be too difficult to meet’
By Marc Morano
April 8, 2025
5:36 pm
Trump Policies Push Maryland To Unplug Its EV Mandate
By Thomas Catenacci
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D.) halted his state’s enforcement of its aggressive electric vehicle mandate law, citing the Trump administration’s withholding of federal funds and concerns from automakers.
In a little-noticed executive order signed Friday, Moore pointed to the Trump administration’s policies reversing Biden-era regulations pushing EVs. “There are indications that the policies of the current federal administration will greatly impact … compliance,” he said. The order noted that the Department of Transportation has held back funding under former president Joe Biden’s $7.5 billion program to build a network of EV chargers across the country.
That program, the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program, was designed to push billions of dollars in federal taxpayer funds to state governments for the purpose of constructing EV charging stations. But the program has faced widespread criticism for producing just a handful of stations over the course of three years and, in one of his first actions, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy froze funding for the program and vowed to “recalibrate” implementation.
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