US EditionButtigieg defends Biden’s EV strategy after question on how only 8 federal charging stations have been built
- Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg struggled to explain why the Biden administration has only built "seven or eight" electric vehicle charging stations under the program by April, while the fossil fuel industry has been lobbying to have the stations built at existing gas stations.
- Buttigieg claimed that building EV charging stations is difficult and that 500,000 would be built in the next six years after the administration had built less than ten after three years.
- Critics argue that the slow progress in building EV charging stations highlights the difficulties in transitioning to cleaner energy sources and the influence of the fossil fuel industry on government policy.
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Buttigieg Built 4 Charging Stations a Year Instead of 50,000
The Biden administration's $7.5 billion investment in electric vehicle (EV) charging stations is progressing a tad slowly. Only seven or eight stations have been built since 2021. They promised 50,000 a year, but we got four instead. The administration's 100% failure rate continues. Secret
Buttigieg defends Biden’s EV strategy after question on how only 8 federal charging stations have been built
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg defended the Biden administration’s push to construct half a million electric vehicle (EV) charging stations along U.S. highways by 2030 after being questioned over how just eight have been built since President Biden signed the legislation two years ago.Buttigieg appeared Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation," where he tried to ease doubts about reaching Biden’s goal of 500,000 chargers by the end of the …
Buttigieg Grilled Over Biden Admin’s Push For Electric Vehicles, Failure To Build Charging Network
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was confronted over the weekend about President Joe Biden’s attempt to push Americans to buy electric vehicles and his administration’s failure to turn billions of dollars in federal investment into a network of charging stations. Buttigieg faced the questions during a Sunday CBS News interview on “Face The Nation” with host Margaret Brennan when asked about former President Donald Trump hammering Biden ov…
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