The counter-revolution continues. No other Western nation is coming close to achieving what Trump has done in his first month back in office.
Trump Is Turning Off All 8,000 EV Chargers at All Federal Government Buildings
Electric vehicles are “not mission critical,” said the Trump administration, which has ordered all EV chargers located at federal buildings to be shut down nationwide and newly purchased EVs to be offloaded. This comes on the heels of pausing already-promised EV infrastructure funding.
The U.S. General Services Administration, or GSA, is the federal agency responsible for contracts and procurement as they relate to the government’s real estate, IT, products, and equipment, which includes vehicles. According to The Verge, there are several hundred charging stations managed by the GSA, which amounts to roughly 8,000 charging ports across the country. And they now they’re going to be turned off.
“As GSA has worked to align with the current administration, we have received direction that all GSA owned charging stations are not mission critical,” said an agency email viewed by The Verge. “Neither Government Owned Vehicles nor Privately Owned Vehicles will be able to charge at these charging stations once they’re out of service.”
These EV chargers were available for government-issued EVs as well as those personally owned by federal employees. An internal announcement is scheduled to be made next week. However, some federal offices have already been instructed to take their chargers offline.
The Verge reports that under the Biden administration, gas-powered vehicles were being phased out in favor of electrification. The GSA currently manages a fleet of approximately 650,000 vehicles—more than half of which were slated to be replaced by EVs.
In a March 2024 press release, the GSA announced that more than 58,000 zero-emission vehicles had been ordered and that more than 25,000 new charging ports had begun installation. Actually, how many ZEVs were received and chargers installed between then and now is unclear.
What happens to the disconnected EV chargers isn’t known. What happens to the recently purchased EVs is also one big shrug emoji. They will be offloaded from the fleet, yes, but whether they are sold or simply put into storage is anyone’s guess at the moment. And will they be replaced with gas-powered vehicles? If so, will the gas cars be resurrected older vehicles or new ones that require additional agency spending? Can they at least be hybrids because gas is expensive again?
Another question mark is whether other federal agencies will follow suit. The Verge says that many of them use the GSA-managed EV chargers. If those are out of service, where’s a federal, law enforcement, or military EV supposed to go?
The first thing you see on the GSA website is its motto: “Delivering effective and efficient government services for the American people.” However, given that there’ll be 8,000 fewer chargers for thousands of existing government-issued EVs that could now be stranded or see increased costs, the GSA seems to be doing the opposite.
There goes Apple shares and Apple products down the craphole:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/25/apple-annual-shareholder-meeting-2025-.html
DEI leads to ruin as history has proven. Remember go woke go broke. Time to sell your Apple shares while the going is good. I guess that’s why Warren Buffet cashed out of Apple.
Just like many of the other statements Trumpy makes, there will probably be a last minute reversal. Elon Musk is the right hand man and the EV Jesus, so I doubt any charges will be unplugged or at least not for very long. I expect Amazon, UPS, DHL, Post Office, and all the Box stores to have a large percentage of EV’s in their fleet. May be a good time to get into an EV stocks as when Trumpy makes his reversal statement, those stocks should pop. Most all the big auto firms are into EV’s now, Huge investments!
I don’t travel outside the States, but interesting none the less. Warning for Americans Traveling to the UK
Key Points:
The UK will charge and prosecute Americans for their social media posts made in the US, if they travel to the UK
This is due to the UK’s broad “hate speech” laws, which could criminalize even statements about your Christian faith or political stance
UK officials have boasted they will “throw the full force of the law” at people, whether they commit crimes in the UK or online from abroad
The vague laws and targeting of conservatives raise concerns that speech could be criminalized at the “whim of the police and officials”
Some UK leaders have even wanted to extradite individuals from the US whose language they want suppressed
All the democrat states that invested heavily in ev will have to go back to the draw board! Trump as stated, is at least axing lots of asinine policies! As Shakespeare said, Kings are earth’s gods in vice their law’s their will.
Government fleet vehicles are primarily used to harass taxpayers with inspection and audit. No need to replace those vehicles with anything as it appears harassment is no longer mission critical.