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Feds award $521 million in EV charger funds, but rollout remains slow (arstechnica.com)

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The awards are part of a $7.5 billion program for EV charger infrastructure.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This comment from the source really resonates with me:

Great to see charger infrastructure being built out, but giving public money to private businesses for privately-owned infrastructure will always baffle me. If the public is paying for this stuff, it should be publicly-owned. Full stop.

Let's not have another ISP situation where tons of government money is effectively funneled to those owners rather than focused on public good. This private ownership with government money makes me nervous about the long term implications.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Private the profits and Socialise the losses