The 500,000 Nationwide EV Charger Network Is A $7.5 Billion Charade
The word charade has several meanings, including an act or event that is false (Cambridge Dictionary), something done just for show (vocabulary.com), or a situation in which people pretend that something is true when it is not (Oxford Learner’s Dictionary). [emphasis, links added]
The charade I refer to is President Biden’s $7.5 billion investment to install 500,000 electric charging stations along America’s highways by 2030.
A reliable and convenient public EV charging infrastructure is critical to achieving the president’s goal of meeting the recent EPA CO2 emission regulation that requires nearly 72% of U.S. new light vehicle sales to be fully electric or plug-in hybrid by 2032.
Without diving deeper into the announcement, one would likely assume that $7.5 billion is sufficient to construct the 500,000 charging stations, one every 50 miles along the nation’s highways.
To identify the charade, one must first look at the math: 500,000 charging stations, each with a minimum of four chargers, accomplished with an investment of $7.5 billion.
But that is only $15,000 per charging station, installed.
A single high-capacity charger can cost $100,000 or more, and most stations have multiple chargers.
We are now in the second year of the program and roughly seven stations have been opened so far.
At this rate, it will require thousands of years to build all 500,000 charging stations, assuming there are sufficient funds to do so.
Global consulting firm McKinsey and Company estimates that the U.S. will need 28 million charging ports by 2030. There are just two million charging ports today.
To meet the goal, about 12,000 new public and private charging ports will need to be added every single day to reach the goal by 2030.
It is true that significantly more government-funded charging stations are in the works and will be opened. The stations completed so far cost significantly more than what has been promised.
With retailers contributing land to the projects opened so far, the cost of each station has averaged one million dollars, with the [government covering] 80% of the cost.
Eight-hundred-thousand dollars ($800,000) for each station is significantly more than the $15,000 committed by the administration.
At this rate, the 500,000 charging stations will cost the government $400 billion, not the $7.5 billion the president has promised.
If the administration is so wrong with this program, one must consider how many government programs designed to bring electric vehicles to the masses are similarly defective.
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The current administration, whoever may be in charge of it, is so completely corrupt and so dependent on deceit that they can’t even be honest with themselves. After stealing the presidency in 2020, they feel they can get away with any crime. It seems that voters don’t matter to the federal government anymore, not even as an afterthought. It makes no difference who gets the most votes if criminals are counting them.
You know all those crazy conspiracy theories about the world being ruled by a satanic cult of pedophiles and adrenochrome addicts? It’s worse than that.
If they manage to install another braindead moron this election, one that can be manipulated like a radio controlled toy, life is going to get very ugly. Let’s face it, Biden will be heart-attacked soon, and nobody on the planet fits that description better than Harris. Plus, if they wait until the last minute, there won’t be time for polls to prove she can’t possibly win, making the fix that much easier,.
The Bad news : A very old and sacred book predicts most people won’t survive the coming age of savage violence and cruelty if they steal another one in 2024.
The good news : After seven years, the terrible regime will crumble, never to be seen again.
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John Galt
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Chump Change, the scam that Gavin Newsom is running on Calif with the choo-choo to nowhere is making this look like a bargain.
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Robert Beatty
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Maybe a brand new constitution would help?
See https://bosmin.com/ICS/CIR-USA.pdf
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