The General services Administration (GSA) appears to be the first to begin pulling away from electric vehicles with its announcement that it is eliminating its EV charging stations and shelving its EV fleet.
GSA had installed some 8,000 charging stations across its little federal empire. And for some reason, they were available for free to GSA employees and their personal EVs. That, bit alone is just more evidence of government waste.
Regardless, the stations are going away and so is the GSA’s fleet of EVs.
The agency did not say if it would sell off its EVs or just put them in storage, but they will no longer be used as the agency’s transportation.
EVs, GSA now says, are not “mission critical.”
“The GSA is working on the timing of canceling current network contracts that keep the EV chargers operational. Once those contracts are canceled, the stations will be taken out of service and ‘turned off at the breaker,’” the agency said in a memo, according to PC Magazine. “Other chargers will be turned off starting next week.”
GSA has also removed its webpage dedicated to the agency’s efforts to electrify its fleet. Under Biden, GSA had set a goal of 100 percent EV by 2035.
This is, of course, good news. Government should not be used to create a market for a flawed product.
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