WASHINGTON, September 27 (CNNBreakingNews.net) — The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) announced Tuesday that it has plans for charging stations for has approved electric vehicles for all 50 states of Washington and Puerto Rico, covering approximately 75,000 miles (120,700 km) of freeways.
The $1 trillion infrastructure bill from November 2021 provides for $5 billion to spend states installing EV chargers along motorways over five years. According to USDOT, states now have access to more than 1.5 billion US dollars to build electric vehicle chargers. The White House announced earlier this month that it had approved 35 of the 50 state plans.
The Federal Highway Administration of USDOT did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the many charging stations the funds would support.
“We’re not going to tell states how to do that, but we need to make sure they meet basic standards,” US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said earlier this year.
According to USDOT, states should finance DC fast chargers; stations should have at least four ports that charge four electric vehicles and Installing electric vehicle charging infrastructure every 50 miles (80.5 km) along motorways and within 1 mile of motorways.
Federal funding covers 80% of charging costs for electric vehicles, with private or government funding making up the balance.
By 2030, President Joe Biden wants 50% of all new vehicles sold to be electric or plug-in hybrid electric models and 500,000 new EV charging stations; he has not advocated phasing out the sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035.
The California Air Resources Board voted in August to allow all new vehicles sold in the state by 2035 to be either electric or Plug-in electric hybrids, a milestone that could hasten the end of gasoline-powered vehicles but has yet to be approved by the Biden government before it can take effect.
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California can sell up to 20% of the 2035 models as plug-in hybrids.