The Biden Administration’s pledge to put more electric car charging stations on America’s roads hasn’t exactly gone according to plan, but a new round of federal grants could help. $521 million in federal grants are earmarked to improve EV infrastructure and build more charging ports on America’s roads.
The Department of Energy and the Federal Highway Administration have allocated $321 million in grant money to expand EV charging infrastructure in 29 states as well as the District of Columbia. The remaining 200 million dollars will finance the “10 Corridor Fast Charging Project”. Reuters. A full list of grantees is available here .
Two major cities will receive a significant portion of these grants: Milwaukee will receive $15 million to install chargers at 53 different sites, while Atlanta will receive $11.8 million to install a DC Fast Charging Hub with 50 fast chargers at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport.
The grants are part of an effort to launch the $7.5 billion plan . However, efforts to achieve this goal are very slow. It reported in March that only seven outdoor charging stations (for a total of 38 spaces for electric vehicles) have been built since the plan was announced and funds were appropriated by Congress two years ago.
