In 2021, Congress approved $7.5 billion in taxpayer dollars to expand the public EV charger network but report show that so far not a single one has been built.
President Joe Biden's 2021 infrastructure bill boasts a $7.5 billion investment in electric vehicle chargers, and his administration insists the country is "On track" to install over a million public chargers by the end of the decade-but reports indicate that so far not a single one has actually been built.
The $7.5 billion federal funding plan for EV chargers consists of the $5 billion National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program and the $2.5 billion Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program, both of which are being administered through agencies affiliated with the Department of Transportation.
Despite more than $2 billion of the $7.5 billion in federal EV charger funding already authorized under the programs, not even half of states have started to take bids from contractors for construction-and not a single new public charger has been built.
An initial wave of 26 states are leading the effort to build out the public EV charger network, with Ohio being the first to break a public EV charger construction project funded by the NEVI program.
The Epoch Times has reached out to the Federal Highway Administration, which is administering the $5 billion NEVI program, with a request for more up-to-date information about the status of the various federally-funded EV charger projects.
In order to alleviate drivers' range anxiety and support growing EV demand, a recent study from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimated that the size of the national charging network needs to grow from roughly 3.1 million ports in 2022 to 28 million by 2030, with the vast majority being private chargers.
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