The Biden administration plans to spend $100 million in an effort to aid America’s electric car drivers by repairing and replacing thousands of chargers people use for their vehicles.
The funding for the work comes from 2021’s bipartisan infrastructure bill — which allotted $7.5 billion for charging — and will attempt to fix or replace roughly 6,000 chargers classified as “temporarily unavailable.” Power issues, routine maintenance, or damage from vandals could contribute to the unavailability of the chargers, The Wall Street Journal reported, noting that roughly 150,000 public charging ports already exist publicly.
The Biden administration wants a national network of 500,000 electric vehicle chargers by 2030.
Elon Musk’s Tesla, which has its own network, has a low failure rate of 4% of its charging stations, compared to 20% of other charging stations, according to an August study from J.D. Power. J.D. Power’s 2023 Electric Vehicle Consideration Study found 61%…