The continued failures of the Biden Administrationâs Transportation Departmentâs attempt to build charging stations has increasingly been making the headlines in the past year - while continuing to make progress at an anemic rate.
With a budget of $7.5 billion and a goal to build 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations, they had only built seven by March 2024. By May the number climbed only to eight. Fast forward to the present, and the fact-checkers are calling foul. Why? Because theyâve now built an entire 15 charging stations! Theyâre an entire 0.003% of the way there.
While the cost per station will come down as they (extremely slowly) build more, thatâs a cost of $500 million per station so far.
And thatâs not all.
According to Yahoo! Tech:
The United States Postal Service unveiled a plan to buy a fleet of all-electric mail trucks for its mail carriers back in 2022, of which 3,000 were supposed to be delivered by now. Unfortunately, those plans arenât even close to fruition. The Washington Post reported that defense contractor Oshkosh has only delivered 93 vehicles so far.
In 2022, The Postal Service announced its plan to buy at least 60,000 âNext Generation Delivery Vehiclesâ (NGDV) for its mail carriers by 2028 and start replacing its aging fleet of trucks. The Postal Serviceâs initial order called for 5,000 all-electric vehicles along with new, gas-powered vehicles, but calls from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Biden Administration pushed them to increase the share of NGDVs that would run on electricity.
Thus far, the Biden admin has authorized $3 billion to source those 93 electric vehicles, an average of $32 million per mail truck (so far).
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