>The General Services Administration (GSA), which manages buildings owned by the federal government, is planning to shut down all of its electric vehicle chargers nationwide, describing them as “not mission critical.” The agency, which manages contracts for the government’s vehicle fleets, is also looking to offload newly purchased EVs.
>The GSA currently operates several hundred EV chargers across the country, with approximately 8,000 plugs that are available for government-owned EVs as well as federal employees’ personally owned vehicles.
>The GSA is working on the timing of canceling current network contracts that keep the EV chargers operational. Once those contracts are canceled, the stations will be taken out of service and “turned off at the breaker,” the email reads. Other chargers will be turned off starting next week.
>Under the Biden administration, the GSA was in charge of implementing the president’s plan to phase out the federal government’s use of gas-powered vehicles in favor of EVs. The federal government owns approximately 650,000 vehicles, more than half of which were to be replaced with EVs.
>Those new EVs would need reliable places to charge. Former President Joe Biden’s signature climate legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act, included $975 million for the GSA to upgrade federal buildings across the country with “emerging and sustainable technologies.” The aim was to achieve a net-zero emissions federal building portfolio by 2045, which included EV chargers.
>According to a March 2024 update, the GSA had ordered over 58,000 EVs and begun installing more than 25,000 charging ports, adding to the 8,000 already in use across the government. An interactive map showing the location of all GSA-owned chargers has been taken offline as of February this year. (An older version is available through the Wayback Machine.)
Literally taking down working EV chargers and selling off government EV’s for no reason other than owning the libs.
!Ping ECO
the-senat on
Damn. I was really looking to get an electric car this year. But now’s there’s nonsense and tariffs…
I might still get it. But this just sours it all.
-Emilinko1985- on
Not allowing federal employees to charge EV cars to own the libs
Y0___0Y on
Is this seriously just being done because electric cars are “liberal”? The money was already spent!
Then why do these people worship Elon??
LtLabcoat on
You know, this is the first order I’ve seen of Trump Term 2 that’s *actually* cartoonishly evil, rather than just regularly malicious-and-stupid.
Like, it’s genuinely something a cartoon would do when they want to have a joke about how pointlessly evil the evil bad guy is. “And with this next plan, I’ll take away your electric car chargers, so that pollution will very slightly increase! Why? Because *I’m evil!”*
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>The General Services Administration (GSA), which manages buildings owned by the federal government, is planning to shut down all of its electric vehicle chargers nationwide, describing them as “not mission critical.” The agency, which manages contracts for the government’s vehicle fleets, is also looking to offload newly purchased EVs.
>The GSA currently operates several hundred EV chargers across the country, with approximately 8,000 plugs that are available for government-owned EVs as well as federal employees’ personally owned vehicles.
>The GSA is working on the timing of canceling current network contracts that keep the EV chargers operational. Once those contracts are canceled, the stations will be taken out of service and “turned off at the breaker,” the email reads. Other chargers will be turned off starting next week.
>Under the Biden administration, the GSA was in charge of implementing the president’s plan to phase out the federal government’s use of gas-powered vehicles in favor of EVs. The federal government owns approximately 650,000 vehicles, more than half of which were to be replaced with EVs.
>Those new EVs would need reliable places to charge. Former President Joe Biden’s signature climate legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act, included $975 million for the GSA to upgrade federal buildings across the country with “emerging and sustainable technologies.” The aim was to achieve a net-zero emissions federal building portfolio by 2045, which included EV chargers.
>According to a March 2024 update, the GSA had ordered over 58,000 EVs and begun installing more than 25,000 charging ports, adding to the 8,000 already in use across the government. An interactive map showing the location of all GSA-owned chargers has been taken offline as of February this year. (An older version is available through the Wayback Machine.)
Literally taking down working EV chargers and selling off government EV’s for no reason other than owning the libs.
!Ping ECO
Damn. I was really looking to get an electric car this year. But now’s there’s nonsense and tariffs…
I might still get it. But this just sours it all.
Not allowing federal employees to charge EV cars to own the libs
Is this seriously just being done because electric cars are “liberal”? The money was already spent!
Then why do these people worship Elon??
You know, this is the first order I’ve seen of Trump Term 2 that’s *actually* cartoonishly evil, rather than just regularly malicious-and-stupid.
Like, it’s genuinely something a cartoon would do when they want to have a joke about how pointlessly evil the evil bad guy is. “And with this next plan, I’ll take away your electric car chargers, so that pollution will very slightly increase! Why? Because *I’m evil!”*
Lol Tesla