• The Biden administration would like to spend $15 billion to increase the national electric-vehicle charging network to half a million stations by 2030.
  • While Congress argues that point, the national network continues to grow, thanks to private companies and regional government initiatives.
  • But the charging stations get built mainly in more populous areas, causing gaps that will be a problem going forward.

    President Joe Biden has announced a plan to spend $174 billion to make it easier for Americans to choose electric vehicles. Biden wants $15 billion of that money to go toward building a national network of 500,000 charging stations by 2030. The day after Biden's announcement, Representatives Andy Levin and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—both Democrats—announced that they had revised their existing bill on electric vehicle infrastructure so that it would align with Biden's new plan. Republicans oppose Biden's plan. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) called it a "mandatory rush" toward EVs (it's not—Biden has declined to back a California proposal that would ban the sale of gas cars by 2035).

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