Marc J. Dunkelman

So they worried the day before Thanksgiving, when they're driving to grandma's house, that they're going to be stuck.

There's going to be no place.

So he's going to, uh, subsidize the construction of those EVs.

There's no federal workforce to build those EV chargers.

So he's going to have to, uh, build a rule.

that will then put those dollars in the hands of state highway departments.

Those state highway departments have never worked with EV charging companies.

They're going to have to figure out what sort of equipment.

They're going to have to find places to lease to put those EV chargers that aren't places where the EV charging companies would otherwise want to put the EV chargers.

They're then going to have to competitively bid to the EV charging companies.

So they compete with them.

They're going to have to convince the utility companies that they should sort of set aside all the work they're doing to power up these various data centers that are demanding more and more electricity and instead take some time to wire up these remotely placed EV charging facilities that very few people are going to.

Right.

Like it's, I mean, that is a very long process.

I think that the people who are working on this program, the, the Nevi program, we're like working really hard.

Like, I think like they made lots of really hard to sit like, like, like Andrew Rogers, like you can name the people who are involved.

Pete Buttigieg, his whole team, like, like I think they were really,

really working hard and diligently.

At the end of the administration, three years later, $7.5 billion, only 58 charges were out.

It looked embarrassing.