Posted on 03/29/2024 9:25:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Two years ago, the Biden administration rammed through Congress a trillion-dollar infrastructure bill that contained, among other boondoggles, $7.5 billion for building EV charging stations across the country.
The administration says it's going to need 500,000 charging stations in place by 2030 to achieve Biden's climate goals on emissions. So far, a grand total of seven charging stations are operational.
“I think a lot of people who are watching this are getting concerned about the timeline,” said Alexander Laska, a deputy director at the Third Way think tank.
Gee! Ya think?
How many charging stations will $7.5 billion buy? The Federal Highway Administration estimates that the money will buy 20,000 stations. And Biden's goal of 500,000 EV charging stations isn't nearly enough.
Some estimates place the number of stations needed to adequately cover the United States for all the EVs that Biden says we have to buy at closer to a million by 2035.
"The US needs to quadruple its charging infrastructure by 2025, and grow it more than eight times by 2030," according to a report out of S&P Global Mobility.
The White House knows full well the chaos that's about to descend on American highways.They figure that's the price we have to pay to save our precious planet.
"A recent study from the National Renewable Energy Lab estimated that in order to meet anticipated charging needs by 2030, a cumulative investment of between $31 and $55 billion for about 1.2 million publicly accessible charging units will be required (on top of about 28 million home charging units)," noted a White House press release from last December.
The reality is that the charging stations open at this moment are unreliable.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
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The Wall Street Journal inspected 39 different fast charger stations in Los Angeles County and found that 40% of them had problems.
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Even more people are concerned about pissing away hundreds of billions of dollars on a scam and building White Elephants that will never work, will be ruined by thieves, and will be decrepit, useless hulks in a few years.
But those hundreds of billions of dollars will fulfill the main objective: lining the pockets of Democrat politicians, donors, and unions.
Yup, the Biden Clown Collection of Creeps is only 500,000 units behind because they’ve got to get thoe cell phones, credit cards, and free medical care out to all the ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT drug dealers and future DemocRAT voters. Remember, we’re gonna nead a hell of a lot of guillotines once the Trumpster takes over. Not to worry about guillotine operators, though. There’ll be millions of volunteers.
> going to need 500,000 charging stations
What’s the source of electricity? Don’t you need power plants too or are they simply going to plug them into extension cords from nearby homes?
I believe in the name of ‘equity’ the plan is for many/most of the chargers be located in ‘underserved’ areas. The kinds of places where the locals can’t afford EVs, the kinds of places that people who can afford EVs tend to avoid, and the kinds of places where unattended copper tends to get ‘harvested’.
if EV charging stations made any money, you wouldn’t need taxpayers dollars to fund them...
why no venture capitalist throwing money at them???
Meanwhile, Tesla has a world wide network of charging atations that all seem to work quite well and if they were uncoupled from Tesla corp and were on their own, they would be a Fortune 500 company. Its amazing the difference between private enterprise and the fedgov doing something...
Without even reading the article, my guess is 499,999 behind 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
They’re going to need to install at least 30% more just to keep 500,000 in operation at any given time.
Ha! I hadn't even seen that post before submitting mine.
Almost there!
I fully expected the money for the charging stations to get funneled to other purposes or just plain payola to buddies of Biden.
FUTURE ARCHAEOLOGISTS WILL find these strange upright items scattered all over the USA continent & they will puzzle as to what they are & how they were meant to be used.
Thieves cut the cords off for the COPPER inside them.
Some people will be able to charge at home, but that still means a huge number of charging stations are required.
Lately people have been willing to underground utilities to visually improve their communities, but at great expense. Will they be willing to pay to underground the vast new quantity of wires necessary to feed all these stations?
The administration says it's going to need 500,000 charging stations in place by 2030 to achieve Biden's climate goals on emissions. So far, a grand total of seven charging stations are operational.
The most successful accomplishment of the Biden administration.
By far.
How many charging stations will $7.5 billion buy? The Federal Highway Administration estimates that the money will buy 20,000 stations.That's $375,000 per charging station!
I wonder how much a gas station costs.
The physical station the EV would hook up to is 5% of the system required.
There must be power lines installed from the high voltage street feeder.
There has to be adequate current on the street feed. Usually run higher power transmission lines from power source to the load.
There has to be adequate power generation plants available to deliver that street feed 24/7/365 not dependent on Sun or wind, which is the very most inconsistent power deliver humanly possible.
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