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If any of this is true that's like ~$50M per charging station. I would be really curious how much commercial ones cost. Likely the government figures are infl

• trothamel 2y ago
  I suspect the money is going out before the charging stations are being built - but if it's taking 3 years to build them, that's kind of a problem in its own right. I don't mind the government spending money to do stuff, but spending money to not do stuff feels bad.
  • vel0city 2y ago
    It is not three years to build them. It's not like the initial plan got created in 2022 and then it's time to grab shovels, pull cables, and pour concrete. There is a lot of planning required for states to create corridors and what not. Most of the projects only got approved in the last year or so. Several states only just got their proposals submitted. Most of the money spent so far was only spent in this last year.
• insane_dreamer 2y ago
  The 1.5B spent is misinformation. The money has been _allocated_ but it hasn't been _spent_ yet and that's because it's taken a very long time for _States_ to come up with proposals that can be funded. It's just taken much too long to happen, but that's at the state level (the Fed Gov is allocating the money but the States are managing it).