The US General Services Administration (GSA) under Donald Trump calls them not criticizing the mission.
February 24, 2025 at 4:04 p.m.
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- The Trump administration is about to reduce the power of EV chargers belonging to the government.
- This decision will affect thousands of load spaces across the country and is already underway.
- We do not know what will happen to the chargers and vehicles that use them.
In a change of scanning policy, the administration of Donald Trump would have simply ordered the closure of all the recharge terminals of electric vehicles in federal buildings across the United States. This decision effectively returns the change to hundreds of electric vehicle chargers across the country, with around 8,000 load ports, managed by the US General Services Administration (GSA).
This directive also includes unloading plans for recently acquired electric vehicles from the federal fleet. Combined, these movements indicate a net reversal of sustainability initiatives defended by the previous administration.
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An internal GSA email, considered by Colorado public radio, reveals that the agency now considers all the accusation terminals belonging to the GSA as “not critical of the mission”. Consequently, the agency will close these chargers how inoperable they will be to all users.
This includes the two federal workers with an EV by the federal government and federal employees who could previously invoice their own personal vehicle in these same stations. Some regional offices have already started to withdraw off -line loads, with an official announcement expected soon.
GSA is responsible for the management of federal assets, including a fleet of around 650,000 vehicles. Under the Biden administration, he embarked on a transition plan to zero emission vehicles. This included the purchase of more than 58,000 electric vehicles and the installation of more than 25,000 load ports. However, he never came to pay these figures and this new directive puts this plan to a rapid end.
The GSA is preparing to unload the electric vehicles he currently has in the fleet, but we do not know where they will go. Technically, this could simply remove vehicles from the fleet and storage rather than selling them. In addition, GSA manages certain chargers for separate federal agencies so that these services may need to abandon their electric vehicles.
It is also not known how the agency will replace vehicles in progress; The possibilities include the purchase of new gas models or the reallowing of the oldest retired.
This development follows Trump’s recent suspension of the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program (Nevi), an initiative of $ 5 billion aimed at extending the country’s EV load network. Together, these decisions could slow down the overall adoption rate of electric vehicles in the United States as a whole. One thing is certain, it will certainly not speed up.
