Grid

As part of the Infrastructure bill the government set aside $7.5 billion to build EV charging stations but only a hand full have been built to date. The reason for this lack of progress in not a surprise and could have been predicted years ago. The cost of a charging station and the location to place one is not a problem. The problem results from the fact that there is no power available at most sites along the grid. When people talked about the short comings of EV's they concentrated on charging time and distance traveled between charges but they never talked about the inability of the grid to support the power. This was well known by the experts but the excitement over EV's just overwhelmed their common sense. The big new kid on the block is AI and it faces the same shortage of power so many companies are trying to set up their own private electric power stations.