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Posted on 07/26/2025 7:06:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Less than 400 additional electric vehicle (EV) public charging ports have been installed in the United States following billions of dollars of allocated funding under the Biden administration for building charging infrastructure, said a July 22 report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) of 2021, signed into law by then-President Joe Biden, appropriated $7.5 billion in funding for two programs—the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program (NEVI) and the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program (CFI). The funds were aimed at supporting the development of public EV charging infrastructure.
However, only 384 charging ports had been built nationwide under the NEVI and CFI programs as of April 2025, the report said.
The Trump administration suspended committing funds for NEVI in February.
GAO said the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), which administers the two programs, has lagged in setting clear performance targets for NEVI and CFI.
The report noted that Congress had “expressed concern over the pace” at which charging ports had been built under the programs.
During a June 2024 Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works hearing, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) criticized the slow deployment of EV charging ports.
“That is pathetic. We’re now three years into this. That is a vast administrative failure,” he said. “Something is terribly wrong, and it needs to be fixed.”
The Biden administration had planned to set up 500,000 charging ports by 2030, according to former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
As of May 2025, there were roughly 219,000 publicly available individual charging ports at 77,000 EV charging stations across the United States, the GAO report said.
Only 56,000 of these units are DC fast chargers that allow EV owners to quickly charge their vehicles. The majority, 162,000 units, are Level 2 ports that take much longer to charge, the report said.
For instance, one hour of charging with a Level 2 port only delivers 25 miles of driving range, far lower than the 100 to 200 or more miles delivered by a DC charger, GAO said.
Moreover, there are large cost differences between the two options.
“Level 2 chargers may cost about $900 to $3,000 per charging port to purchase, and between about $700 and $4,000 per charging port to install,” the report said.
In contrast, “the fastest DC fast charger can cost over $140,000 per charging port to purchase, and more than $39,000 per charging port to install, when between three and five charging ports are installed,” according to the report.
GAO highlighted that federal support for EV charging infrastructure may be affected due to the Trump administration’s policies.
On Jan. 20, the first day of his second term in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Unleashing American Energy.”
In the order, Trump instructed all agencies to “immediately pause the disbursement of funds” appropriated via the IIJA or the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, including funding for EV charging stations made available through the NEVI and CFI programs.
In February, FHWA said in a letter sent to the directors of state departments of transportation that it was suspending commitment of funds under the NEVI program.
At the time, the agency said the decision was taken to align with current policies of the Department of Transportation (DOT), including a Jan. 29 DOT order that policymaking be based on “sound economic principles and analysis supported by rigorous cost-benefit requirements and data-driven decisions.”
According to the GAO report, FHWA officials told them in March that due to Trump’s executive order and related agency actions, “most of FHWA’s NEVI and CFI activities were under review while it, and other relevant agencies, determine whether these efforts align with the administration’s policies and priorities.”
“Officials did not provide a time frame of their review process. As of May 2025, these reviews were ongoing and their outcomes unknown,” the GAO report added.
Meanwhile, new EV sales dipped by 3.5 percent in June year over year, according to a July 18 statement from auto industry service company Cox Automotive. The outlook for the fourth quarter is “far less certain” due to the elimination of government-backed incentives and tariff issues, it said.
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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...😫
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 “ports“ 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.
It’s actually both worse and not that bad at the same time. I’ve seen some charging arrays that had six to eight 350kW chargers, not just 150kW chargers. That’s a huge demand if they’re all used at the same time.
But on the flip side, now that most EV owners’ one to two years of free charging at Electrify America chain stations have expired, it’s been a while since I’ve 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 — 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. That’s 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 wouldn’t buy an EV for long trip driving. The gas vs charge cost savings on road trips is negligible. It’s 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 it’s your newest, most comfortable driving car and you researched ahead of time that the chargers along the route are good ones. For other trips we’ll use the gas pickup.
For me, the EV was bought mainly for personal security, energy wise. I can’t 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 Dims’ warmageddon cult energy policies have less impact on the energy portion of my budget because I’m not buying much energy anyway. To limit our long trip mobility they’d have to inhibit our access to both power and gasoline, not just one or the other.
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