Posted on 07/26/2025 7:06:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Fewer?
$7.5 billion for 400 EV public charging ports beats the pants off $33 billion and ZERO miles of track laid in 17 years.
Gee...
The taxpayers paid 18.75 million dollars per charging station...đ«
Hunter Biden EV charging construction working hard.
Typical DC scam of; create, fund and loot. Follow the money and those who stole it and get it back.
Fast chargers keep costing a fortune after they are installed because of the monthly electric demand charge to cover their huge power draw (up to 150kW each). A site with several fast chargers will pay thousands a month in demand charges if they all happen to get used at the same time, which has to be averaged out over everybody using it that month. Unless they are able to provide hundreds of charges they could end up massively subsidizing EV owners.
If people don’t want something even when the government pays for the equipment, there are probably good reasons.
I wonder if any of the bimbos or pretentious 'men' of the MSM will cover this story tomorrow on any of the Sunday Morning 'news' shows.
Graft and corruption are pretty expensive these days.
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), which administers the two programs
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure-investment-and-jobs-act/nevi_formula_program.cfm
1) appears to be 1 billion per year starting 2022
2) 80percent cost share, others pay 20 percent.
3) lots of bureaucracy overhead.
OMG
Great job Buttpugg.
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EV People: What does 400 charging ports mean? Could it mean there are 10 locations with 40 ports or vis versa?
I take a “port” to mean a single charging unit that might be in an array with a number or other units to form a charging area.
Please illuminate.
the perv was busy ‘breastfeeding’,
while on federal salary
Even this report is completely misleading as to how incompetent Pete Buttigieg was. It notes that less than 400 âportsâ were built. The ports, however, are not built in isolation. They are clustered together, like gas station pumps. Accordingly, these clowns built a couple dozen charging stations with nearly $8 billion.
Buttigieg was incompetent, but I doubt he had much to do with the lack of EV chargers being built. There was so much red tape included in the law that it turned into a SNAFU. The charging stations have to meet certain specifications and placed in specific locations. The installation plans had to be approved by the state and then reapproved by the feds before the grant money was released.
That is correct. A charging port is the equivalent of a gas pump, not a gas station.
Itâs actually both worse and not that bad at the same time. Iâve seen some charging arrays that had six to eight 350kW chargers, not just 150kW chargers. Thatâs a huge demand if theyâre all used at the same time.
But on the flip side, now that most EV ownersâ one to two years of free charging at Electrify America chain stations have expired, itâs been a while since Iâve seen those stations busy. EV owners were charging for free at EA stations instead of charging at home and adding to their power bills. This was part of the EPA forcing Volkswagen, the owner of EA, to pay indulgences over diesel emissions. EA charging experiences tended to be bad â you get what you pay for.
But using mostly EVGo charges from New Brunswick to Alabama last year were good charging experiences (fast chargers, clean restrooms) because I was a paying customer at gas stations with only two chargers. Thatâs why the 1,740 mile trip took only 32.5 hours of driving, charging, and restroom break time (not counting the time I stayed at a hotel).
Even with that understanding, I wouldnât buy an EV for long trip driving. The gas vs charge cost savings on road trips is negligible. Itâs the home charge miles where the real gas savings is. We drive ours 18K miles annually on home charged miles alone, so for us the gas savings is substantial. Take the EV on long trips only if itâs your newest, most comfortable driving car and you researched ahead of time that the chargers along the route are good ones. For other trips weâll use the gas pickup.
For me, the EV was bought mainly for personal security, energy wise. I canât produce my own gasoline, but in the southern climate I use solar to produce most of the power my home consumes, including charging the EV. The Dimsâ warmageddon cult energy policies have less impact on the energy portion of my budget because Iâm not buying much energy anyway. To limit our long trip mobility theyâd have to inhibit our access to both power and gasoline, not just one or the other.
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