It’s a wonderful case of the feds can’t build them directly, so they give a bunch of money to the states, but they can’t build them directly either, so they give that money to local governments, who are under no obligation to actually spend it on the chargers, and there’s grift at every level.
Even ‘Electrify America’ which has built about 4k is a company that essentially exists as a punishment-deal for the automanufacturers. So they’re incentivised to build them, but much less so to actually maintain them or keep them reliably online.
It’s a wonderful case of the feds can’t build them directly, so they give a bunch of money to the states, but they can’t build them directly either, so they give that money to local governments, who are under no obligation to actually spend it on the chargers, and there’s grift at every level.
Federalization is a fucking joke.
Even ‘Electrify America’ which has built about 4k is a company that essentially exists as a punishment-deal for the automanufacturers. So they’re incentivised to build them, but much less so to actually maintain them or keep them reliably online.