The Death of Biden’s EV Charger Push Was Greatly Exaggerated
The president is intent on throwing up roadblocks to the Biden administration’s ambitions, but the nation’s embrace of electric vehicles has a life of its own.
The number of public charging ports in the US roughly doubled between 2021 and 2025.
Photographer: Angus Mordant/Bloomberg
Former President Joe Biden’s rollout of a national electric-vehicle charging network moved so slowly that you needed time-lapse photography to prove it was alive. Now that President Donald Trump is hacking away at every green-hued thing the government does, it might seem this rollout is all but dead.
As with so much about the clean-energy revolution, the nation’s embrace of EVs has a life of its own, one that will flourish or perish regardless of what Trump does. But he’s once again making it far more difficult for the country to shed its fossil-fuel dependence and make global heating a little less catastrophic.