The Biden administration is awarding $623 million in grants to help build an electric vehicle charging network across the nation.

The Biden administration is awarding $623 million in grants to help build an electric vehicle charging network across the nation.

Grants being announced Thursday will fund 47 EV charging stations and related projects in 22 states and Puerto Rico, including 7,500 EV charging ports, officials said.

“America led the arrival of the automotive era, and now we have a chance to lead the world in the EV revolution — securing jobs, savings and benefits for Americans in the process,” said Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. The new funding “will help ensure that EV chargers are accessible, reliable and convenient for American drivers, while creating jobs in charger manufacturing, installation and maintenance for American workers.”

Congress approved $7.5 billion in the 2021 infrastructure law to meet President Joe Biden’s goal of building out a national network of 500,000 publicly available chargers by 2030. The charging ports are a key part of Biden’s effort to encourage drivers to move away from gasoline-powered cars and trucks that contribute to global warming.

    • seang96A
      28·
      11 months ago

      I consider NACS a downside and will refuse to buy an EV with one. There is an actual standard and it should be used. I am sure there are updates in the future for the real standard that will fix problems that it has even though I personally haven’t had any issues in regards to it.

        • seang96A
          45·
          11 months ago

          That’s the problem, Tesla wanted their own shit and.is forcing it down other manufacturers throats because they have the most charging stations. This only affects america.because no one else allowed him to adopt his crap standard elsewhere. He could have worked with them and improved the existing standard and remained compatiblity, but instead decided “let’s do another standard!”.

          I imagine Tesla will be the manufacturer for these and I cannot trust these lunatics with a fast moving machine that can kill me due to the charging port screwing up other devices in the car because of their shoddy manufacturing processes.

            • seang96A
              12·
              11 months ago

              Trust a company where steering wheels fall off to make a product VS something used by millions already in multiple countries, including in the US, tough choice indeed.

              The great thing about standards is they can be improved. Sure CCS has issues and I’m sure NACS does, we can only think so far ahead. Standards get revisions and improve over time. Making new ones results in fragmentation, confusion, adapters, and man kind fixing more standards than one.

                • seang96A
                  11·
                  11 months ago

                  There are recalls and there is factory testing. Musk doesn’t believe in testing so they skip these checks. A standard car manufacturer catch manufacturing issues before it leaves their door.

                  My car uses CCS and I have not experienced anything so terrible. Standards are built better working together not separating and making your own shit.

      • Fal@yiffit.netEnglish
        62·
        11 months ago

        NACS is a better standard. Existing standards are awful and there is in fact no 1 single standard

        • seang96A
          23·
          11 months ago

          The name is North American Charging Standard, which is a stupid name, but because Tesla wanted to make their own for the US. You really want that guy running a standard?

          There are not that many standards. Could’ve went with the most common one and worked with everyone to develop it further for the further good of everyone. Unfortunately this would’ve hurt his pathetic ego though.

        • seang96A
          2·
          11 months ago

          I try to boycott those as much as well and luckily I can!

        • cbarrick@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          That’s… an outdated analogy.

          I have used neither of those products in over a decade.

          Google Workspace (Gmail, Docs, Drive, etc) is a better office suite product than MS Office. It’s also free for personal use.

          Re Acrobat, Web browsers and operating systems ship built-in PDF readers these days. For the handful of PDFs that I don’t open in Chrome, Apple Preview does a great job.