{"id":76200,"date":"2024-08-27T12:03:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T16:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=76200"},"modified":"2024-08-27T12:03:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T16:03:18","slug":"u-s-awards-521-million-in-grants-to-build-out-9200-ev-chargers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=76200","title":{"rendered":"U.S. awards $521 million in grants to build out 9,200 EV chargers – Autoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The Biden administration said Tuesday it is awarding $521 million in grants to build out electric vehicle<\/a> charging and deploying more than 9,200 EV charging ports.<\/p>\n

The Energy Department and Federal Highway Administration<\/a> said $321 million will be allocated for 41 community projects that expand EV charging infrastructure, while $200 million will fund 10 corridor fast-charging projects.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee will receive $15 million to install EV chargers<\/a> at 53 sites while Atlanta will receive $11.8 million to install a DC Fast Charging Hub at the city’s airport with 50 DC fast chargers providing charging for rental cars<\/a>, ride-share drivers, and airport shuttles.<\/p>\n

A full list of grant recipients can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Biden administration has faced harsh criticism for the slow deployment of EV charging stations from a $5 billion U.S. government program created in 2021.<\/p>\n

Automakers and others say drastically expanding EV-charging stations is crucial to the wide deployment of electric vehicles, key to U.S. efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The White House goal is to grow the nationwide network of chargers to 500,000 ports, including high-speed chargers \u2014 no more than 50 miles (80 km) apart \u2014 on the nation’s busiest highways.<\/p>\n

As of August, the United States had 192,000 public charging ports and since the start of the Biden administration, the number of publicly available fast-charging ports has increased by 90%.<\/p>\n

FHWA<\/a> said approximately 1,000 new public chargers being added each week.<\/p>\n

In June, just seven EV-charging stations had been deployed under the 2021 U.S. program consisting of a few dozen total charging ports, said Shailen Bhatt, who heads the Federal Highway Administration.<\/p>\n

“That is pathetic. We’re now three years into this … That is a vast administrative failure,” said Senator Jeff Merkley at the hearing. “Something is terribly wrong and it needs to be fixed.”<\/p>\n

Bhatt said in June he was frustrated with slow deployment and said the agency is working with states on their plans to deploy EV chargers.<\/p>\n

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has also repeatedly criticized the deployment pace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 The Biden administration said Tuesday it is awarding $521 million in grants to build out electric vehicle charging and deploying more than 9,200 EV charging ports. The Energy Department and Federal Highway Administration said $321 million will be allocated for 41 community projects that expand EV charging infrastructure, while $200 million will fund […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}