The incoming Trump administration has signaled its hostility toward EVs. Will the red-state/blue-state divide come for public charging?

Three years ago, the US government opened the funding spigot as Congress, with support from the Biden administration, directed $7.5 billion in funding to build tens of thousands of public charging stations. Those stations would ease the transition from gas-powered cars to electric ones, policymakers argued, allowing the government to reach its goal of making at least 40 percent of car sales zero-emission by 2030.

Now the administration is changing over, and members of the Donald Trump transition team are broadcasting a more skeptical stance towards EV charging. Last week, Reuters reported that members of the upcoming administration intend to redirect EV charging funds to other purposes, including onshoring battery-mineral processing, on the grounds that charging isn’t a “national defense” priority.

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