Tweaked Infrastructure Plan Keeps Funds For Biden’s EV Chargers, Trains, Clean Buses

Tweaked Infrastructure Plan Keeps Funds For Biden’s EV Chargers, Trains, Clean Buses

President Joe Biden, with a bipartisan group of senators, speaks Thursday June 24, 2021, outside the White House in Washington. The modified infrastructure bill drafted by a bipartisan group of U. S. Senators and blessed by President Joe Biden is smaller than his initial proposal but retains dramatic levels of spending to cut carbon emissions from transportation, most notably by creating a network of charging stations across the country for battery-powered cars and trucks. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework unveiled on Thursday afternoon would spend a total of $1. 2 trillion over eight years, including $559 billion of new spending, the White House said. While previously proposed spending to help automakers boost production of electric vehicles isn't explicitly part of the compromise bill, there is $7. 5 billion for public infrastructure to keep them powered up. The proposal focuses on building chargers at highway stops in rural and lower-income communities. "The largest investment in EV infrastructure in history, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework will accomplish the President's goal of building 500, 000 EV chargers," the White House said. The biggest single source of spending is $109 billion for roads, bridges and major construction projects across the U. S., as well as $25