At least three states say they have secured tens of millions of federal dollars to build electric vehicle stations, despite the Trump administration’s efforts to extinguish the Biden-era funding.
The Department of Transportation has obligated four years of funding to Colorado and Washington state and a smaller portion to Maryland, according to officials from those states. The moves came after a federal judge directed the agency in May to lift a funding freeze for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program.
Colorado and Washington are now aggressively restarting their programs to place fast-charging stations at 50-mile intervals on highways. The two states have taken the unusual step of locking in years of federal funding before most of contracts have been awarded.
‘We are quite confident that with the funding obligation, the state will be able to spend those dollars,” said Will Toor, the executive director of the Colorado Energy Office.
