The data on this page seems to be incorrect. For example, for the longest stretch of no chargers (US route 2 through Montana), it says there are no chargers from the Idaho state line to Tilleman Motors in Havre, MT. But there's a Tesla Supercharger in Kalispell, which US 2 goes through. They have this charging location in their database, so I don't know what mistake they're making in their calculations.[1]
What's going on in Tennessee? Michigan having a lot I can understand due to the auto industry but it's surprising to see Tennessee almost fully covered
The complicated part is that there is ideological and financial opposition to accomplishing the goal.
This administration illegally froze federal funding for programs that congress previously allocated to build these chargers... then when courts shut that down, they tried to change other requirements to make them impossible to meet... and then congress passed a budget to reallocate some of the funds.
Didn't the previous administration allocate billions of dollars and only build a handful and then build them in places where people can't afford EV cars?
I don't think we can blame just one administration on this...
The administration itself doesn't build these chargers or choose where they go, it allocates grant money to state DOTs for them to distribute.
> then build them in places where people can't afford EV cars?
The point of the program is to build a national charging infrastructure, not to put chargers in rich people's backyards. Rich people and rich neighborhoods already have chargers.
Poor rural areas are exactly the prime target for federal infrastructure funding. This is how the US built roads, telecom networks, etc, in these areas.
They allocated billions of dollars in 2021 to be spent over the next decade for EV charging via grants to the states which would actually build the stations.
It was not expected that many would be built in the first year or two. The program had to be set up, states had to prepare proposals and apply for funding, some had to modify their laws to comply with federal requirements.
When 2024 rolled around many high-profile Republicans, including many Republicans in Congress, started blatantly lying about it on social media, saying that the money was all spent on the handful of charges that had been built at that point.
In February 2025 the Trump administration illegally froze this. In January 2026 a court ordered them to resume funding. They are still trying to find ways to effectively stop it, like a proposal to require all federally funded EV chargers to be 100% American made.
The data on this page seems to be incorrect. For example, for the longest stretch of no chargers (US route 2 through Montana), it says there are no chargers from the Idaho state line to Tilleman Motors in Havre, MT. But there's a Tesla Supercharger in Kalispell, which US 2 goes through. They have this charging location in their database, so I don't know what mistake they're making in their calculations.[1]
1. https://chargingnear.me/stations/859-w-reserve-dr-kalispell-...
It says there are no chargers along all of US-82 in NM, from Alamogordo to the TX border.
> US-82 in New Mexico: 190.4 miles, from where US-82 meets US-54 to Texas state line.
I see there's an "EV Go Electric" charging station at 404 Burro Ave in Cloudcroft.
There are apparently at least two charging stations in Artesia, according to https://www.dot.nm.gov/electrifying-new-mexico/?ev=charging&... and other sources.
Then there's the oddity of why that stretched stopped at the state line. It's not like there's a charger right on the border.
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I thought the goal for NEVI was to always be within 50 miles of an EV charger. That would mean that any gap of under 100 miles is acceptable.
That can't be quite right. There are places in the West with more than 100 miles between services (to say nothing of Alaska).
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What's going on in Tennessee? Michigan having a lot I can understand due to the auto industry but it's surprising to see Tennessee almost fully covered
If you just put them along I-40 through Tennessee you pretty much cover the state because it's long and skinny and I-40 goes through it.
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So let's build them. This is not complicated.
The complicated part is that there is ideological and financial opposition to accomplishing the goal.
This administration illegally froze federal funding for programs that congress previously allocated to build these chargers... then when courts shut that down, they tried to change other requirements to make them impossible to meet... and then congress passed a budget to reallocate some of the funds.
Didn't the previous administration allocate billions of dollars and only build a handful and then build them in places where people can't afford EV cars?
I don't think we can blame just one administration on this...
The administration itself doesn't build these chargers or choose where they go, it allocates grant money to state DOTs for them to distribute.
> then build them in places where people can't afford EV cars?
The point of the program is to build a national charging infrastructure, not to put chargers in rich people's backyards. Rich people and rich neighborhoods already have chargers.
Poor rural areas are exactly the prime target for federal infrastructure funding. This is how the US built roads, telecom networks, etc, in these areas.
They allocated billions of dollars in 2021 to be spent over the next decade for EV charging via grants to the states which would actually build the stations.
It was not expected that many would be built in the first year or two. The program had to be set up, states had to prepare proposals and apply for funding, some had to modify their laws to comply with federal requirements.
When 2024 rolled around many high-profile Republicans, including many Republicans in Congress, started blatantly lying about it on social media, saying that the money was all spent on the handful of charges that had been built at that point.
In February 2025 the Trump administration illegally froze this. In January 2026 a court ordered them to resume funding. They are still trying to find ways to effectively stop it, like a proposal to require all federally funded EV chargers to be 100% American made.
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I'm not inherently opposed to Claude-generated sites, but could you put in a couple minutes of effort to make it less obvious?
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