The incoming Trump administration has signaled its hostility toward EVs. Will the red-state/blue-state divide come for public charging?
Three years ago, the US government opened the funding spigot as Congress, with support from the Biden administration, directed $7.5 billion in funding to build tens of thousands of public charging stations. Those stations would ease the transition from gas-powered cars to electric ones, policymakers argued, allowing the government to reach its goal of making at least 40 percent of car sales zero-emission by 2030.
In a world where electric vehicles become a political lightning rod, those places might see the most charger action. EV Charging as Bipartisan Plenty of people would prefer it if EVs—and their chargers—could avoid the culture wars altogether. Joe Sacks is the executive director of the bipartisan EV Politics Project, an advocacy group, and says that getting more public chargers in the ground is critical to getting more electrics on the road.
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