DETROIT – President Joe Biden wants half the vehicles sold in the US to be electric vehicles or plug-in hybrids by 2030. But to reach that goal, not only do Americans need to start buying more electric vehicles, they need more charging stations to plug them into.
EVs and plug-in hybrids accounted for just 2 percent of US vehicle production in 2020, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Part of the reason EVs have been slow to take off — in addition to being expensive — is the lack of charging infrastructure: there are currently only around 45,000 publicly available EV chargers in the US.
The Biden administration’s goal is to increase that number to 500,000, and it plans to do that, in part, using $7.5 billion in funding from the bipartisan infrastructure package the President signed last week. Though it’s only half of what the White House initially proposed for EV charging, experts told CNN it will get the administration most of the way to its goal.
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