The head of the federal electric vehicle charging program said Monday that he’s optimistic the $7.5 billion effort will continue after President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
The Federal Highway Administration has fully obligated $4.4 billion, or 59 percent, of the money that Congress set aside to build public charging infrastructure, Gabe Klein, executive director of the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, said at the Transportation Research Board’s annual meeting in Washington. The joint office oversees electric charging funds in conjunction with FHWA.
It will be difficult for the Trump administration to claw back obligated funds — and the $3.1 billion that remains is in high demand from both Republican- and Democratic-led states, Klein said.
“There’s a lot of support across the aisle, all over the country” for EV charging, Klein said.
