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Biden Administration Just a Little Behind in Building 500,000 EV Charging Stations by 2030
PJ Media ^ | 03/29/2024 | Rick Moran

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.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: automotive; chargingstations; electric; ev; infrastructure
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1 posted on 03/29/2024 9:25:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

See here:

https://www.wsj.com/tech/i-visited-over-120-ev-chargers-three-reasons-why-so-many-were-broken-7a5d3e45?mod=djemwhatsnews

The Wall Street Journal inspected 39 different fast charger stations in Los Angeles County and found that 40% of them had problems.


2 posted on 03/29/2024 9:26:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: GOPJ; poconopundit; Jane Long; Diana in Wisconsin; Grampa Dave; Godzilla; Vaduz; null and void; ...

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3 posted on 03/29/2024 9:28:37 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father wIho art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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To: SeekAndFind
"...a lot of people are getting concerned about the timeline,”

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.

4 posted on 03/29/2024 9:30:20 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


5 posted on 03/29/2024 9:30:24 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: SeekAndFind

> 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?


6 posted on 03/29/2024 9:34:09 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: SeekAndFind

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’.


7 posted on 03/29/2024 9:35:59 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: Liz

if EV charging stations made any money, you wouldn’t need taxpayers dollars to fund them...

why no venture capitalist throwing money at them???


8 posted on 03/29/2024 9:36:13 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: SeekAndFind

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...


9 posted on 03/29/2024 9:43:20 AM PDT by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suckle the breast of Capitalism.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Without even reading the article, my guess is 499,999 behind 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


10 posted on 03/29/2024 9:45:40 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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To: SeekAndFind

They’re going to need to install at least 30% more just to keep 500,000 in operation at any given time.


11 posted on 03/29/2024 9:47:23 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: SeekAndFind
"The Wall Street Journal inspected 39 different fast charger stations in Los Angeles County and found that 40% of them had problems."

Ha! I hadn't even seen that post before submitting mine.

12 posted on 03/29/2024 9:49:44 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: SeekAndFind

Almost there!


13 posted on 03/29/2024 9:49:52 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Da Coyote

I fully expected the money for the charging stations to get funneled to other purposes or just plain payola to buddies of Biden.


14 posted on 03/29/2024 9:50:36 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


15 posted on 03/29/2024 9:51:24 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: SeekAndFind

Thieves cut the cords off for the COPPER inside them.


16 posted on 03/29/2024 9:51:55 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: SeekAndFind
If it takes five minutes to gas up and 30 minutes to charge up, then we will need six times as many charging stations as there are gas stations.

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?

17 posted on 03/29/2024 9:55:51 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (What is left around which to circle the wagons?action )
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To: SeekAndFind
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.

18 posted on 03/29/2024 9:56:23 AM PDT by gitmo (If your biography doesn't match your theology, what good is it?)
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To: SeekAndFind
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.

19 posted on 03/29/2024 9:59:09 AM PDT by gitmo (If your biography doesn't match your theology, what good is it?)
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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.


20 posted on 03/29/2024 10:04:23 AM PDT by USCG SimTech
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