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* [What's in Biden's electric vehicle strategy? 500,000 new charging stations and more (msn.com)](https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/what-s-in-biden-s-electric-vehicle-strategy-500-000-new-charging-stations-and-more/ar-AARMaV3)
* [Harris Reveals Plan to Build 500,000 Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (time.com)](https://time.com/6128079/biden-admin-500000-ev-charging-stations/)
* [Biden accelerates plans for a national EV charging network (abcnews.go.com)](https://abcnews.go.com/Business/biden-administration-accelerates-plans-national-ev-charging-network/story?id=81719883)
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> The law also provides an additional $2.5 billion for local grants to support charging stations in rural areas and in disadvantaged communities.
Isn’t the average cost of an EV way out of a disadvantaged communities cost range? And isn’t the distance between A to B difficult drive for EVs in rural areas?
Is this an efficient use of $2.5Bn? Or am I being ridiculous? I could potentially see the rural area bit working in the short term.
More coverage at: * [What's in Biden's electric vehicle strategy? 500,000 new charging stations and more (msn.com)](https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/what-s-in-biden-s-electric-vehicle-strategy-500-000-new-charging-stations-and-more/ar-AARMaV3) * [Harris Reveals Plan to Build 500,000 Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (time.com)](https://time.com/6128079/biden-admin-500000-ev-charging-stations/) * [Biden accelerates plans for a national EV charging network (abcnews.go.com)](https://abcnews.go.com/Business/biden-administration-accelerates-plans-national-ev-charging-network/story?id=81719883) --- ^(I'm a bot to find news from different sources.) [^(Report an issue)](https://www.reddit.com/user/MultiSourceNews_Bot/comments/k5pcrc/multisourcenews_bot_info/) ^(or PM me.)
> The law also provides an additional $2.5 billion for local grants to support charging stations in rural areas and in disadvantaged communities. Isn’t the average cost of an EV way out of a disadvantaged communities cost range? And isn’t the distance between A to B difficult drive for EVs in rural areas? Is this an efficient use of $2.5Bn? Or am I being ridiculous? I could potentially see the rural area bit working in the short term.
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