Last week, US Federal Government Freezing a national program It is planned to send $ 5 billion to sponsoring efforts to build charging infrastructure for electric vehicles, with the goal of building half a million new EV chargers in the United States by 2030.
The freezing is a series of new bad news appearing in the field of electric cars and wider automobile sectors. In the first month of office, President Donald Trump signed one Executive command Aim “Terminat (ing) Task of electric car“And high tariffs for Canadians, Mexicans and Europe goods. General, these moves may Destroy the global automotive industry.
The freezing charging EV has thrown the charger industry is still in confusion. Legal experts say this move can resist the law. However, observers in the industry said that the pausing of funding may not spell the destruction of the nation's charging infrastructure, or the broader goal is to bring more people into electric vehicles.
Loren McDonald, an analyst at Paren, an EV data analysis company, said that this industry does not depend on this anyway, they are building charging infrastructure.
Confused sponsorship
The three -year -old national electric vehicle infrastructure program (Nevi) is funded by the Federal Government. But it is managed by individual countries, which means that state officials are responsible for planning to charge websites and write contracts with companies to build and operate them.
Some of the state officials are still evaluating the meaning of freezing them. The state of Ohio has built 19 stations with Nevi's sponsorship, one third of 57 people opened nationwide. The state is working to understand the specific sponsorship effects of the new instructions when it applies to our remaining contract projects, Mr. Breanna Bodanes, spokesman of Charging initiative of Ohio dotWrite for Wired in a statement.
In general, countries seem to believe that they can go forward with projects that contracts have been signed, but cannot be signed any more, even if they were given money to build. What will happen is, any obligations are now done, the contracts have been signed, which will still be funded, the US Transport Minister Sean Duffy Tell Fox Business Over the weekend. He acknowledged that the killing of the Nevi program would ask for an action of the National Assembly. But he said no additional funding would be released until the Ministry of Transport rated the program. That process may not be completed in a few months.
The price of delay?
In the near future, Nevi's delay in sponsorship can be difficult to see for EV drivers. For one thing, Nevi -funded chargers are a decline in the bucket of the nation's budding charging infrastructure, McDonald, analyst said. He estimates that fast charging ports sponsored by Nevi will account for about 10 or 15 percent of the 16,000 odds due to being online in the US this year. If countries track with contracts with contracts, about 750 to 850 out of 1,000 Nevi websites planned to open, McDonald said.
For another, the Nevi program is designed to build a charger that is not always close to where most EV owners live. The program's rules (may be changed right now when it is being considered) stipulates that the money is used to build stations every 50 miles along the national high traffic highway. The idea is that the government will allow the public to collect fees quickly in places where the market may not support it, to allow long -distance trips. But most people do not make daily trips, so they may not immediately notice the delay in construction. People DO The notice may be a rural driver.