One of President Joe Biden's favorite slogans on the campaign trail was "500,000 charging stations" for electric vehicles. And now, as president, he has continued to conjure an image of an America filled with electric cars and peppered from coast to coast with lightning-fast EV chargers.
Now, some of those chargers are going to be built. On Thursday, the departments of energy and transportation jointly announced $5 billion for states to build out a network of EV chargers along the Interstate Highway System. The funding comes from the bipartisan infrastructure bill signed into law in November and is a cornerstone of the president's climate plan. Transportation is currently the U.S.'s biggest source of carbon emissions.
