Energy chief touts electric vehicle funding in Senate plan
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Wednesday that the amount of funding for an electric vehicle charging network included in the bipartisan Senate infrastructure plan is about even with what was in President Biden's proposal.
Biden's original American Jobs Plan would have provided $174 billion to "win the [electric vehicle] market," though it was not clear how this money would be allocated. Part of the plan included building out a network of 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations.
Granholm told reporters Wednesday that the bipartisan framework's previously announced $7.5 billion in loans and another $7.5 billion in grants would be enough for the charging network.
"$15 billion was commensurate with what the president had announced in the American Jobs Plan," she said at an Energy Department event promoting electric trucks.
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