Posted on 01/23/2024 9:44:40 AM PST by AbolishCSEU
$13 million in federal funding is coming to repair electric vehicle charging ports across the state.
Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Monday that the money has been awarded to the New York State Department of Transportation (NYS DOT) by the US DOT’s Federal Highway Administration’s Electric Vehicle Charger Reliability and Accessibility Accelerator Program. Funding will be used to repair or replace broken or non-operational EV charging ports.
“New York State is the national leader when it comes to investing in innovation to combat the plague of global climate change,” Governor Hochul said.“This federal award will enable us to keep our existing electric vehicle charging infrastructure in a state of good repair, while we continue to make investments in the Empire State’s electric vehicle future. The green revolution is upon us, and New York is once again leading the way.”
The plan is for the NYS DOT to enter into a sub-agreement with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to administer the funds. NYSERDA will then enter into its own sub-agreements with charging providers or charging station owners.
Those receiving the funds will be required to make their stations operational within 12 months of the award and to keep the stations operational for at least five years.
Earlier this month, US Senator Chuck Schumer announced that he secured $15 million in federal funding to help New York install charging stations at over 200 locations across the state.
According to the state, there are over 10,000 publicly accessible level two and direct current fast chargers in New York.
Could there be a more gigantic waste of money?
lol battery humpers lol
Your tax dollars at waste.
Those receiving the funds will be required to make their stations operational within 12 months of the award and to keep the stations operational for at least five years.
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“keep the stations operational for at least five years.”
How do they do that exactly?
Lol.
Did NYS get $13 million of our tax money to replace stolen gas pump hoses and broken pumps?
How odd that pump failure and theft problem doesn’t afflict gasoline.
Funding will be used to repair or replace broken or non-operational EV charging ports.
Ask that question of DeSantis backers.
Gee, and here I thought the whole EV system was self-sustaining. /s
https://electrek.co/2024/01/18/us-to-spend-nearly-150-million-to-fix-broken-charging-ports/
The new funds are part of the $5 billion National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program, which is funded by a $1 trillion 2021 infrastructure law. Under the program, “states need to operate federally-funded charging ports for at least five years, which must work 97% of the time,” Reuters reports.
US DOT's FHA EV CRAAP? Crap. They named their program, Crap?
They're not even trying to hide their contempt anymore.
TWELVE MONTHS???? How about twelve DAYS?
Only government has such a complete lack of urgency.
I worked in competitive companies and it was always "Faster, faster, what's taking so long? Get it done NOW! We need that running by tonight!"
Correction; "Another $13 million will be extorted from U.S. taxpayers for NY", as Democrats continue to feed the corporate donors for the Global Warming marketing strategy they created.
I heard that every week at nearly every gas station in America someone accidentally drives off forgetting that the nozzle was still hooked up to the car. It snaps right off of course. Gas stations have to repair them on their own. Part of the cost of self service gas stations.
What is the issue with broken EV chargers? Why are they not privatized and profitable? Do taxpayers subsidize the electricity, too? Is there no “electricity tax” to help ‘pay for the roads’ like there is on each gallon of gasoline?
Mail in ballots are $50 each. How you describe the payments has to be creative.
And any entrepreneur thinking about setting up a charger (i.e. at his restaurant or store to make a little extra coin while people eat or shop) thinks twice before doing so because he's always worried about the government setting up a "free" charger a mile away. For example, the Electrify America stations are owned by Volkswagen and are set up with dieselgate punishment money with many EV owners able to charge at those stations for free the first year or two of owning the EV. No small business competitor will go through the expense and permit requirements to set up a charger if he's worried that the next "Volkswagen settlement order" news story will make free 350kW chargers a block away.
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Another looming problem is utilization and how utilities charge for the electricity they provide. Most EV charging stations sit unoccupied because EVs still only make up a tiny fraction of the overall car market. That means the business case for building more chargers is very difficult to make.
“It’s that first few years where you want me to put a quarter million into a station, and then I can’t get better than 5 percent utilization,” said Henry Lee, director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s environmental and natural resource program. “I lose my shirt in the first three or four years, but by year seven or eight, I could be making money on it.”
https://www.theverge.com/22419150/ev-charging-us-joe-biden-infrastructure-plan
Just an odd question....how did all these charge stations ‘break’?
Was going to ask the same question. I’ve heard that the copper is ‘harvested’. Which implies that they’ll ‘break’ again.
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