The Biden administration is awarding $623 million in grants to help build an electric vehicle charging network across the nation.
Grants being announced Thursday will fund 47 EV charging stations and related projects in 22 states and Puerto Rico, including 7,500 EV charging ports, officials said.
“America led the arrival of the automotive era, and now we have a chance to lead the world in the EV revolution — securing jobs, savings and benefits for Americans in the process,” said Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. The new funding “will help ensure that EV chargers are accessible, reliable and convenient for American drivers, while creating jobs in charger manufacturing, installation and maintenance for American workers.”
Congress approved $7.5 billion in the 2021 infrastructure law to meet President Joe Biden’s goal of building out a national network of 500,000 publicly available chargers by 2030. The charging ports are a key part of Biden’s effort to encourage drivers to move away from gasoline-powered cars and trucks that contribute to global warming.
It really doesn’t matter. Tesla out-sold everyone, combined, and out-deployed everyone else’s fast chargers by stall count and almost by site-count. A standard doesn’t matter if nobody is really using it.
Multiple CEOs called out how unreliable the various CCS providers are and how stable the Supercharger network is. Tesla’s network is ranked substantially higher than any other US network for reliability, and is under much more use.
That’s all objective fact.
If you don’t like Tesla or Musk or whatever for political reasons, you are more than welcome to hold those views, but you haven’t provided an objective technical reason.
Trust a company where steering wheels fall off to make a product VS something used by millions already in multiple countries, including in the US, tough choice indeed.
The great thing about standards is they can be improved. Sure CCS has issues and I’m sure NACS does, we can only think so far ahead. Standards get revisions and improve over time. Making new ones results in fragmentation, confusion, adapters, and man kind fixing more standards than one.
Do note that you’re actually defending Tesla here if you want to use the steering wheel argument, which I suspect is not your intent.
Every major carmaker behind CCS has had more physical safety recalls (w/ higher %), and in a lot of cases, with more safety critical components (ie wheels, critical suspension components, various fire hazards)
And yes, standards can improve, they can also change. NACS is the standard and CCS is now effectively dead in the North American market. CHAdeMO was available much earlier than CCS and implemented by multiple manufacturers but there are very few people talking about that.
I implore you to rent a vehicle instead of speculating in the comments. CCS is a terrible connector.
There are recalls and there is factory testing. Musk doesn’t believe in testing so they skip these checks. A standard car manufacturer catch manufacturing issues before it leaves their door.
My car uses CCS and I have not experienced anything so terrible. Standards are built better working together not separating and making your own shit.