Trump to shut down all 8,000 EV charging ports at federal govt buildings

Electrek ^ | 2/21/25 | Michelle Lewis

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

He don’t give a crap.Hes on a mission which apparently he loves.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

Seems stupid or spiteful to take out the EV chargers. If charging is currently free that’s easily fixed.

[George from New England]

Or make cables long enough to reach more than one space. Not hard to design a port that can easily reach 4 parking spaces

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Hopefully they are in the group that was shown the door.

[maddog55]

[Tudorfly]

Looks like a baby carriage on steroids...just needs the handle.

[ExSES]

Do the employees get to charge their personal cars for free?

Yes, as far as I know. My Stepson bought a Tesla because of it, he commutes 130 miles/day into DC (when he is not working at home)!

[EVO X]

Snooping around a bit, it appears ChargePoint was managing the EV charging stations at the Denver Federal Center, so EV owners would be paying to use them.

[Tai_Chung]

A federal judge will come along in a few days to tell Trump to turn those charging stations back on.

The lawsuits are endless

[fuzzylogic]

No all charging ports are equal, or use DeFacto-standards.

[babble-on]

....... of no real value (to Elon).

[FlingWingFlyer]

Why do they need EVs if they work at home.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Yep, no doubt. I was talking about that on other threads..How do these judges have more power than the President? The President is THE executive branch of the government, so how can some activist judge rule over that? Isn’t it the duty of Congress to limit the power of the President? So basically what we have here are judges running the country, not the President, it’s outrageous. Nobody elected these assholes.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

That would make the most sense, but I suspect that the government is so inept (or maybe diabolical) that the electricity to charge cars would be “free” and not charged to the car owner. Our daughter’s boyfriend drives a couple miles to the next town to charge his EV for FREE. He brings his bike so he can get home while the car is charging. Then he returns a few hours later to retrieve his fully-charged car.

[NautiNurse]

Nancy Pelosi is definitely quiet. Could be the hip fracture recovery isn’t going well.

Nancy is receiving specialized therapy to learn navigation of her walker while wearing 4" spike heels.

[T.B. Yoits]

[Dixie Yooper]

Back around 2000, I was part of an engineering team that redesigned the EPA’s first HQ for the next tenant. In the parking garage were a row of parking stalls with chargers for GM’s first EV, that was a total failure. The chargers were demo ‘ed.

[Sacajaweau]

Every time I see a plug in station with lotsa ports..there's like two cars...

Now the local gas station...it's in and out all day long....and there's five of them within a mile radius.

[rktman]

Ruh roh Scooby.

[rktman]

Install gas stations at fed bldgs?