Last week, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that New Mexico was the first state to submit its EV charging plan to the federal government, a requirement to get funding from the infrastructure bill's
, a requirement to get funding from the infrastructure bill’s EV charging fund. But, the plan wasn’t without controversy, as many in the state and even journalists just don’t understand the complexities of government and the process.Last year’s infrastructure bill included money to fulfill Biden’s campaign promise of 500,000 EV charging stations. The money is part of a $3 trillion infrastructure investment aimed at creating jobs and transitioning the US to cleaner energy sources.
We’ve written about the processes other states like Washington, Texas, and Arizona have been using to gather public input, but while the rest of the states were preparing to submit plans, New Mexico was finishing up. On July 13th, the state submitted its plans. You canOne very interesting thing I saw early on was that it got a LOT of public input. One of the key things the state got from the public was that stations should be placed in such a way as to plug gaps in charging first and foremost.
Instead of picking specific sites, they figured out where the gaps are, determined which exits had power and amenities in those gaps, and then identified areas along the interstates in which to add the charging stations. Then, they talked to major retailers and convenience stores like Allsups and 7-11 to see if they’d be interested in hosting more sites. The end result is that they just need to find specific host sites now in the blue areas on the map.
There were many other even more ignorant comments, like saying that there are already rolling blackouts in New Mexico , so we clearly can’t go adding EVs to the state’s grid. But, I don’t want to boreWhat was more shocking was to see that thepicked up a commentary written by a staffer from a newspaper in Carlsbad, New Mexico, claiming that the state was prioritizing interstate EV charging over rural charging.
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