Governors From Several States Ask Biden to “Roll Back” Electric Vehicle Mandates
Sixteen governors, in a letter to President Biden, have asked the government EV mandates to ease and to allow the American consumers to “maintain choice in the types of vehicles they choose to drive.”
The current federal regulations would mandate that two out of every three vehicles will need to be battery electric vehicles by 2032.
Additionally in that letter, the governors say they are not opposed to electric vehicles, but “they do have concerns with federal government mandates that penalize retailers and do not reflect the will of the consumer.”
Other challenging issues they raised in the letter include having the proper infrastructure to support battery EVs, as well as sufficient supply chain capabilities for domestic EV battery production.
More Federal Funds for Truck Parking Projects Have Been Announced
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced last week $292 million in federal funds to go towards truck parking projects.
Some of those projects include:
- $180 million for the Florida DOT to build 900 trucking parking spaces along I-4 in Central Florida.
- $8 million for Wisconsin DOT to reconstruct a Safety Rest Area along I-90.
- $12 million for Washington State DOT to deploy a regional truck parking information management system at 54 truck parking facilities throughout the I-5 corridor in WA, OR, and CA to connect truck drivers with available parking.
- $92 million for the Missouri DOT to improve I-70.
- A little over $40 million for a project at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania.
These funds come from under the Nationally Significant Multimodal Freight & Highway Projects (or INFRA) program – as Trucker News states, funding has been increased more than 50% by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
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