President Donald Trump's administration has suspended the $5 billion Biden electric vehicle charging program.
In a letter to the state Department of Transportation Board on Thursday, Emily Biondi, assistant manager of the Planning, Environment and Real Estate Office; I said The administration has suspended the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program.
“The new leadership of the Department of Transportation (US DOT) has decided to consider the policies underlying the implementation of the NEVI Formula Program. Therefore, the current Nevi Formula Program Guidance dated June 11, 2024, and this guidance All previous versions of the program will be cancelled,” writes Biondi.
“As a result of the withdrawal of the NEVI Formula Program guidance, FHWA has immediately stopped approval of electric vehicle deployment plans for all states in all states. Therefore, it will take effect immediately and updated final NEVI. No new obligations will arise under the NEVI Formula Program until Formula Program Guidance is issued and new state plans are submitted and approved.
Lawmakers are more formally known as the Infrastructure Investment and Employment Act, including a $5 billion program in the $1.2 trillion so-called infrastructure bill.
The program aims to create more than 6,000 charging stations, serving as embarrassment for then-Transport Secretary Pete Battigigue.
In September 2023, Buttigieg admitted that he was struggling to find an electric charging station while traveling the road.
In August 2024, then-President Joe Biden claimed that the administration had built 500,000 charging stations nationwide.
In May, Buttigieg was asked by a CBS News one Face the country To explain why only eight of the promised EV stations were built:
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