States get final OK to build EV charging network highway
To highway locations near you new electric vehicle charging stations are on their way, potential car buyers say. All 50 states received final approval on Tuesday that places one roughly every 50 miles (80 kilometres) along interstate highways, to begin construction on a first nationwide network of EV charging stations, to spur widespread adoption of zero-emission cars part of the Biden administration’s plan. The Transportation Department said from a last set of 17 states it had OK’d EV charger plans, triggering the release of $1.5 billion in federal funds to all jurisdictions nationwide or 75,000 miles (120,000 kilometres) of highway from coast to coast, with a goal of 500,000 EV chargers nationwide $5 billion over five years to install or upgrade chargers. The other 33 states and the District of Columbia were approved earlier this month. At existing highway EV stations in states such as California, Colorado by year’s end, drivers could start seeing expansions and upgrades, ...