This week, the United States Transport Department has released a new provisional guide for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (Nevi) program. These rules advise states on how to spend $ 5 billion in funding for new electric vehicle chargers, with the aim of creating a motorway network at national level of about half a million public chargers. The Nevi program was first established in 2021 by the infrastructure invoice of the Biden administration, with the aim of eliminating one of the major fears of the electric vehicle of car buyers: they will end.
But the program was focused in the first weeks of the administration of Donald Trump, part of a push to Nix what the president called a “mandate of electric vehicles”. The point “paused” the program for months, stopping some payments to the States. (The Department was forced to restart funding in some states after a handful of blue won the cases in court.
The new guide, which is not yet definitive, is not very different from the old language. The Federal Administration of the Autostrade, the office agency, states that the goal is to “simplify” the program, making it easier for states to obtain money for the charger to the companies that build them, which then quickly bring the chargers to the ground. Infirm states to present new plans to use the charger financing within 30 days.
The agency has also added some new provisions, including one that encourages states to give their money to the office in which companies that have the stations also have the land under it. The goal here is to “accelerate the delivery of the project”, and it is excellent news for historical operators in the supply sector (now mostly gas). The big winners will probably include the names they recognize from today’s road trips: Truck Stop operators such as Pilot Flying K, Love’s Travel Stops and Travellenters of America; Minimarket chains such as Sheetz, Wawa and Kwik Trip; And also some large shops, such as Walmart.
At this moment, these federal recommendations do not have the strength of the law behind them; They are only “encouragement”. But if states accompany the guide and send billions of money for public chargers to this type of companies, drivers with electric vehicles will probably be attracted to the same type of places rich in services to load that their gas cars visit today.
The move makes sense, says Loren McDonald, head of Paren’s analyst, an EV charging data analysis company. The installation of the recharging of electric vehicles is already a complex work, which requires permits, construction and purchase of sometimes expensive and delayed electrical equipment. Add to this several companies – a site host, as well as a different company that actually manages the charging equipment – and some projects have seen Holdps. With the new agreement of the Federals, he says: “You don’t have to go through a lease negotiation, which can take a long time: the months”.
In addition, the survey data suggest electric vehicles drivers Like similar truck services When they stop to load, a process that can take between 15 minutes and now, depending on the machine. Tiffany Wlazlowski Neuman, spokesman for the National Association of Truck Stop Owners, a commercial association that represents travel centers and truck stops, praised the new Nevi arrangement and said that drivers want continuity. “The refueling experience for electricity should be as similar as possible to today’s fuel experience and should work with consumer behaviors and habits,” he wrote in one and -mail.
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