Suspension of federal funding for new electric-vehicle charging stations blocks the build-out of a highway charging network for America’s battery-powered cars.

The NEVI program was part of the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law which allocated $5 billion over five years to install chargers in every state.

The Trump administration’s war on electric vehicles is heating up as the Federal Highway Administration has effectively paused the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program. It provides funding to states to “strategically deploy electric vehicle chargers and to establish an interconnected network to facilitate data collection,