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VIDEOThis video reveals why EVs have become so popular with sales of electric cars growing at an ever increasing rate. It's because their chargers are fast, convenient, and very friendly to the environment. Goodbye to gasoline powered cars; hello to EVs with their clean CLEAN energy.

$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...

The Biden administration has offered a broad interpretation for where EV charger projects can qualify for new tax credits — making those credits available in places where about two thirds of Americans live. Under the Democrats’ climate, tax and healthcare bill, tax credits for electric vehicle chargers are available to those who build chargers in low income communities or in areas that are not considered urban. In new guidance announced Friday, the Biden administration offered a wide interpretation of non-urban — saying that it applied to any census tract where at least 10 percent of blocks have not been designated...

The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) was announced last year with a budget of $5 billion. It was meant from the get-go to help states, agencies, and local authorities advance EV charging over a five-year period. The plan was to spend around $1 billion every 12 months. Around $500 million were set aside so federal authorities could direct funds exactly where they wanted them to be used. One such case is fixing or outright replacing existing EV chargers that are no longer in use or have been abandoned. The initiative consumes 20% of that budget.

A bill currently in the works in the North Carolina legislature would allocate $50,000 to get rid of free public EV chargers unless free gas pumps are built alongside. Politicians have to run on some kind of platform, and Ben Moss—my incoming state House representative here in North Carolina's District 52—decided that his animating principle is Being Mad at Electricity. To prove his animosity toward this invisible menace, he's sponsoring House Bill 1049, which would allocate $50,000 to destroy free public car chargers. It contains some other enlightened ideas, but that's the main theme: We've simply got to do something...

Costco, the membership warehouse-club chain, was an early leader in offering electric-vehicle charging to its customers, setting an example followed by other retailers, including Best Buy and Walgreen. By 2006, Costco had installed 90 chargers at 64 stores, mostly in California but also some in Arizona, New York and Georgia. Even after General Motors crushed its EV1 battery cars, the Costco chargers stayed in place. Yet just as plug-in cars like the Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt enter the market, Costco is reversing course and pulling its chargers out of the ground, explaining that customers do not use them. Photographed...