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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
By Melissa Goldin

FACT FOCUS: Posts misrepresent Biden administration spending on EV charging stations

EV Chargers Cost Fact Focus - (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

As President Joe Biden's term comes to an end, social media users are falsely claiming that his administration spent billions of dollars on the construction of just a handful of electric vehicle charging stations. Multiple high-profile figures, including sitting members of Congress, have promoted the claims.

The claims misrepresent funding set aside by the 2021 Infrastructure and Jobs Act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, for a national network of publicly available electric vehicle chargers. Biden has set a goal of creating 500,000 such chargers by 2030.

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