'Sell Tesla stock?' U.S. federal government set to close 8,000 EV charging stations

 Starting this week, 8,000 electric vehicle charging stations in U.S. federal buildings will be closed.



Trump 2.0 has begun, and green policies are headed for an apocalypse. The Biden administration invested heavily in electrification, installing charging stations everywhere and introducing electric vehicles to the federal fleet.

But Trump is in the process of scrapping green policies.

According to internal government emails obtained by The Verge, the reasoning behind the closures was that the charging stations were not mission-essential.

What is the significance of closing 8,000 chargers? 


The first thing that will happen is the termination of the contracts with the networks that are the operators of the charging stations. Charging will be impossible without the network. Employees' personal vehicles, as well as government-issued EVs, will have to find other solutions.

Some may think that they'll just go somewhere else to charge, but the closure of 8,000 charging stations means a huge hole in the landscape of charging infrastructure.

The problem is that Trump's rampage is only just getting started. Even the electric vehicles purchased by the Biden administration will likely vanish from the federal fleet. The U.S. General Services Administration's (GSA) electrification website has already been taken down. Experts say this is a clear sign that the Trump administration wants to turn its back on the technology.

The decision is in line with what Trump has been saying since the campaign. It's part of an overall review of his environmental policies. He has emphasized that pragmatism has become more important than green.

The U.S. is already struggling to keep pace with countries like Norway and China when it comes to electric vehicles. Therefore, the federal government's decision is likely to cause dizzying disruptions to the American industry.

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