US: STRATEGY TO BUILD 500,000 ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATIONS RELEASED

Mon 13 December 2021:

The Biden administration unveiled a new plan on Monday to build a charging network of about 500,000 stations for electric vehicles across the United States.

“Today, the Biden-Harris-Administration is releasing an EV Charging Action Plan to outline steps Federal agencies are taking to support developing and deploying chargers in American communities across the country,” the White House said in a press release. “The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law … will put us on the path to a convenient and equitable network of 500,000 chargers and make EVs accessible to all Americas for both local and long-distance trips.”

The Biden administration will spend $5 billion to build a charging network for both local and long-distance trips, according to the White House.

According to the release, the US Departments of Energy and Transportation will sign a memorandum on Tuesday to establish a Joint Office of Energy and Transportation that will focus on implementing the EV charging network and will serve as a “one-stop-shop” for EV related resources.

The effort also is intended to help the U.S. leapfrog China in the plug-in EV market. Currently, the U.S. market share of plug-in electric vehicle sales is one-third the size of the Chinese EV market.

Vice President Kamala Harris planned to announce the vehicle-charging strategy Monday at an event in suburban Maryland.

The US Department of Transportation will issue guidance on how to deploy EV charging stations along the US highway system, by February 11.

In August, the US president Joe Biden signed a decree mandating that half of all passenger vehicles sold in the US must be electric by 2030.

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