Got 'range anxiety'? Trump halts massive EV charger project

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: USA Today

Updated Aug. 11, 2025, 11:42 a.m. ET


DENVER ‒ A $7.5 billion Biden-era plan to build a massive network of electric vehicle chargers to address concerns about "range anxiety" has crashed to a halt after installing fewer than 400 chargers nationwide.

President Donald Trump's administration earlier this year blocked spending on the project, which aimed to put potentially thousands of chargers at gas stations, rest stops and other sites no more than 50 miles apart. A coalition of Democrat-led states and nonprofits has sued to get the funding restarted, but there's been no final decision yet, and the installations remain on hold.

"Halting the funding sets us all back, and it's simply wrong," Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, said in an Aug. 6 statement announcing the state was joining the ongoing lawsuit. "Electric and hybrid vehicles are no longer the technology of the future. They’re here now, and this technology is only becoming more important to our families and businesses."

Funded by the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the plan aimed to make it easier for people to drive EVs on long road trips and reflected the Biden administration's efforts to push people away from gasoline-powered vehicles. Industry experts say a major obstacle to widespread EV adoption is the lack of charging options while away from home.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/11/biden-ev-charger-project-trump/85563143007/

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More violations of the "Budget and Impoundment Control Act".

[Historic NY]

1. Trump wants to crush EV vehicles.

He wants to exploit fossil fuels industry.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. And meanwhile

his (on again, off again) little buddy has a whole business in EVs that will need chargers to make them worth buying.

[Nigrum Cattus]

5. Here ya go

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/09/trump-asks-oil-executives-campaign-finance-00157131

[ramapo]

7. Trump is committed to setting the US back decades

China is thrilled. We've ceded any chance at competing.

[markie]

2. I just

did an 800 mile (one way) trip....MD, PA, OH, IN, MI... and I had some serious "mileage anxiety" along the route I took... unfortunately, Tesla offers more fast chargers and I have a convertor.... hate that I use them but couldn't go anywhere otherwise

this will not help

[J_William_Ryan]

4. "Funded by the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act..."

Trump doesn’t have the authority to ‘halt’ anything.

[Martin Eden]

8. Trump routinely exceeds his authority

By the time a lawsuit works its way through the courts with multiple appeals, much damage is already done.

[mitch96]

6. His buddy musk will not be happy...nt

[ProudMNDemocrat]

9. This is TACO's way of punishing Musk for his disloyalty.

Punish the EVs wherever he can. Elon pissed him off and he's seeking revenge.