U.S. highways have 878 stretches of 50+ miles with no fast EV charger (map)

Re:U.S. highways have 878 stretches of 50+ miles with no fas... by kube-system on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:03PM (#50443851)

The complicated part is that there is ideological and financial opposition to accomplishing the goal.

This administration illegally froze federal funding for programs that congress previously allocated to do build these chargers... then when courts shut that down, they tried to change other requirements to make them impossible to meet... and then congress passed a budget to reallocate some of the funds.

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Re:U.S. highways have 878 stretches of 50+ miles with no fas... by readthenotes1 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:20PM (#50444091)

Didn't the previous administration allocate billions of dollars and only build a handful and then build them in places where people can't afford EV cars?

I don't think we can blame just one administration on this...

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Re:U.S. highways have 878 stretches of 50+ miles with no fas... by kube-system on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:26PM (#50444180)

The administration itself doesn't build these chargers or choose where they go, it allocates grant money to state DOTs for them to distribute.

> then build them in places where people can't afford EV cars?

The point of the program is to build a national charging infrastructure, not to put chargers in rich people's backyards.

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