“Carl Ingber thought he’d have to get out and push his electric car on an August night when the battery flashed “0%” about five miles from the closest charging station in upstate New York.
“It’s blinking zero, limited power,” Ingber, a driver with a Hudson Valley airport transport service, recounted to us as he stood charging his Hyundai EV.
“I’m like, ‘Oh my God, am I going to make it?’”
He did make it—just barely—to a fast-charging federally funded port tucked behind a Bank of America off Interstate 87 in Kingston. It’s the first electric vehicle charging station opened in New York state funded by the 2021 federal infrastructure law.
Reporters Lillianna Byington and Kellie Lunney encountered Ingber during an 840-mile trip between Washington, D.C., and New York taken to investigate the future of the federally funded EV charging network after a launch riddled with obstacles—which include location restrictions, state hurdles, grid reliability, and private sector charging woes.
The Biden-Harris administration has spent the past four years trying to make it easier for drivers like Ingber to charge their EVs using public infrastructure, and ultimately spur more Americans to buy the vehicles. The infrastructure law is pouring $7.5 billion into building tens of thousands of federal charging ports this decade.
And while private chargers are also a key part of the government’s overall plan, drivers of most non-Tesla EVs have to navigate complicated phone apps, a lack of signage for charging portals, ghost chargers that pop up on maps but don’t exist, [slow charging ports](https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/why-public-ev-chargers-almost-never-work-as-fast-as-promised), and varying price points. Federally funded ports play a crucial role, as they’re designed to be fast, interoperable across EV models, easy-to-use and available to more drivers in places that may not be commercially profitable.”
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“Carl Ingber thought he’d have to get out and push his electric car on an August night when the battery flashed “0%” about five miles from the closest charging station in upstate New York.
“It’s blinking zero, limited power,” Ingber, a driver with a Hudson Valley airport transport service, recounted to us as he stood charging his Hyundai EV.
“I’m like, ‘Oh my God, am I going to make it?’”
He did make it—just barely—to a fast-charging federally funded port tucked behind a Bank of America off Interstate 87 in Kingston. It’s the first electric vehicle charging station opened in New York state funded by the 2021 federal infrastructure law.
Reporters Lillianna Byington and Kellie Lunney encountered Ingber during an 840-mile trip between Washington, D.C., and New York taken to investigate the future of the federally funded EV charging network after a launch riddled with obstacles—which include location restrictions, state hurdles, grid reliability, and private sector charging woes.
The Biden-Harris administration has spent the past four years trying to make it easier for drivers like Ingber to charge their EVs using public infrastructure, and ultimately spur more Americans to buy the vehicles. The infrastructure law is pouring $7.5 billion into building tens of thousands of federal charging ports this decade.
And while private chargers are also a key part of the government’s overall plan, drivers of most non-Tesla EVs have to navigate complicated phone apps, a lack of signage for charging portals, ghost chargers that pop up on maps but don’t exist, [slow charging ports](https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/why-public-ev-chargers-almost-never-work-as-fast-as-promised), and varying price points. Federally funded ports play a crucial role, as they’re designed to be fast, interoperable across EV models, easy-to-use and available to more drivers in places that may not be commercially profitable.”
[Read more here. ](https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/the-great-american-ev-road-trip-will-have-to-wait-for-chargers?utm_source=reddit.com&utm_medium=bgov)
Costs more to juice up a car in public than to fuel up and it takes 10x as long.
Really makin the average person excited to adopt ya know?