The US General Services Administration (GSA) intends to close a network of electric vehicle charging stations, considering them "non-mission critical." This is reported by The Verge.
GSA currently operates several hundred electric vehicle charging stations across the country, with about 8,000 outlets available for both government electric vehicles and federal employee personal vehicles.
A formal order directing federal officials to begin the process of closing the charging stations will be announced next week, according to a source familiar with the plans. The GSA is working to terminate current grid contracts that support the electric vehicle charging stations. Once those contracts are terminated, the stations will be decommissioned and “off the grid.”
During the Biden administration, GSA was responsible for implementing the president’s plan to gradually replace federal gasoline-powered vehicles with electric ones. The federal government owns about 650,000 vehicles, and more than half of them were to be replaced with electric vehicles.
President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to roll back his predecessor’s electric vehicle policy, which he mischaracterized as a “mandate.” After his inauguration, he halted a $5 billion program to install new public electric vehicle charging stations across the country, signed an executive order to reverse Biden’s directives on the purchase of new electric vehicles for the federal fleet, and announced his intention to eliminate the federal electric vehicle tax credit.