Federal Government Approves Tennessee’s $88M Electric Vehicle Charging Station Plan
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The Center Square [By Jon Styf] –
Tennessee’s plan to distribute $88 million in federal funds to build electric vehicle charging stations in the state has been approved by the Biden Administration.
The plan calls for Tennessee to spend $13.7 million of federal funds this fiscal year and the remainder over the following four years as part of $7.5 billion federal plan.
Tennessee will be looking for entities to build charging stations along a designated alternative fuel corridor and to put in 20% of the cost of any electric charging station project. Grantees will be required to maintain the stations for a set period of time. No fee parameters have been set.
“Making electric vehicle charging accessible to all Americans is critical to achieving a transportation sector that improves our environment and lessens our dependence on oil and gas,” U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm said.
The grants are one of several sets of federal funds available, including $3 billion for charging stations in economically disadvantaged communities through the Neighborhood Access and Equity Grant Program.
Plans in 35 states have now been approved.
The funds will go toward charging station grants for entities in Tennessee with locations within one mile of the designated alternative fuel corridor. That corridor is located along Tennessee’s interstates, including I-24, I-26, I-40, U.S. 64, I-65, I-75 and I-81.
About the Author: Jon Styf, The Center Square Staff Reporter – Jon Styf is an award-winning editor and reporter who has worked in Illinois, Texas, Wisconsin, Florida and Michigan in local newsrooms over the past 20 years, working for Shaw Media, Hearst and several other companies. Follow Jon on Twitter @JonStyf.
Unlike I can afford to go out and buy an Electric Vehicle with my Social Security check and my Pension check, I do well to afford groceries, and the high cost of heating and cooling my home.
We can thank Biden and his Democratic Party for this.
What a waste of tax payer money on such non sense crammed down the throats of the American people.
I love Tn. I just don’t love the idiots running it. I voted for Lee, believing he would be a conservative leader. I have to admit I was wrong. It’s not just the latest stupidity, i.e. charging stations, it’s also the refusal to take back control of our universities. I think we need a complete change of command in the state including the GOP leadership that refuses to accept a legally binding election. I swore I’d never vote for a Democrat, but in essence, I guess I did. I have a bad case of buyers remorse.
This is so stupid and a waste of taxpayer dollars. We are supposedly a “Conservative” state that is now falling in line with the leftist elite’s globalist communist agenda. It’s quite sad how weak Conservatives are these days. It’s definitely time for new leadership in this great state!
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Hydrogen
Can easily be instituted by metro cities, County and
State vehicle fleets
Without federal $$$
Without federal overreach
VOTE JOHN GENTRY