Trump administration suspends $5bn electric vehicle charging program

The Trump administration ordered the United States to suspend the charging program of electric vehicles in the amount of $ 5 billion in the future for the environmental movement from the moment the president returned to the White House.

In a note published on Thursday to state directors of transport, the Federal Administration of the highway (FHWA) ordered the states not to spend any funds allocated by him in accordance with the Biden administration as part of the National Electric Carmobile Infrastructure program (NEVI).

“The new leadership of the Ministry of Transport … decided to consider the policy underlying the implementation of the NEVI Formula program,” writes Emily Biondi, deputy administrator of FHWA for planning, environment and real estate. “Accordingly, the current guide for the NEVI Formula program of June 11, 2024 and all previous versions of this leadership were canceled,” Biondi added.

“As a result of the cancellation of the NEVI Formula FHWA program, it also immediately suspenses the approval of all state plans for the deployment of electric vehicles for all financial years. Consequently, having entered into force immediately, no new obligations can arise as part of the NEVI Formula program until the updated Nevi Formula Formula program has been issued, and new state plans will be submitted and approved, ”she wrote.

Biondi added that until a new leadership is issued, reimbursing existing obligations to design and construction of charging stations will be allowed to prevent violation of current financial obligations.

According to the existing page on the website of the Energy Department, the NEVI program provides states for strategically deployed EV Chargers. Financing is available up to 80% of the appropriate costs for the project, including the purchase, installation and network connection of the EV charger, proper operation and maintenance of the EV charger, as well as long -term data on the EV charger.

The politician reports that as of Thursday, FHWA deleted several pages of the website that provided information about the NEVI program.

In a statement for Politico Andrew Rogers, the former deputy administrator of FHWA as part of the Biden administration, said that the memorandum “, by the visible, ignores both the law and numerous prohibition orders issued by federal courts.”

Further, as a result of Roger, it is said that the memorandum, by the visible, “is in direct violation” of the law on monitoring the application of 1974, the law that limits the presidents from the retention of the approval of the congress.

Currently, in 14 states there is at least one EV operational station according to EV Carehouse. As of November last year, in nine states in nine states in nine states, 126 ports of public charging are operating, which is 83% an increase in NVI open ports from the last quarter, according to the NEVI report.

He added that in total, the 41 state issued at least their first round of proposals, and 35 received conditional awards or established agreements for more than 3560 ports of fast charging in more than 890 places of the charging station.

Throughout his campaign, Trump opposed electric vehicles, at some point they said that supporters of vehicles should “rot in hell” and that EV Biden’s support would bring a “bloody bat” to the US automobile industry.

Last month, as part of a whore executive orders that he signed during the first days ago, Trump canceled the Biden era from 2021, which sought to make half of all new vehicles sold in the United States in 2030.