Trump cuts off charging ports for all 8,000 electric vehicles in the federal

The General Services Administration (GSA) under Donald Trump said they are not important.

Donald Trump’s administration has reportedly ordered the closure of all electric vehicle charging stations in federal buildings in the United States during a radical policy shift. The decision effectively converts the conversion of hundreds of electric vehicle chargers across the country to approximately 8,000 charging ports managed by the General Services Administration (GSA).

The directive also includes plans to unload recently acquired electric vehicles from the federal fleet. These moves combined show a sharp reversal with the last government-promoted sustainability initiative.

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A GSA internal email viewed by Colorado Public Radio reportedly shows that the agency now believes all GSA-owned charging stations “not important.” As a result, the agency will turn off these chargers, at which point they will not be able to use all users.

This includes federal workers who have federally owned EVs and federal employees who previously could charge their own private vehicles at these same sites. Some regional offices have begun offline and are officially announced soon.

GSA manages federal assets, including a fleet of approximately 650,000 vehicles. Under the Biden Administration, it set out to develop a plan to transition to zero-emission vehicles. These include purchasing more than 58,000 electric vehicles and installing more than 25,000 charging ports. It never implemented these numbers, though, and this new directive prompted the plan to end quickly.

GSA is preparing to unload the electric vehicles currently owned in the fleet, but it is not clear where they will go. Technically, it can simply take the vehicle out of the fleet and store it instead of selling it. Additionally, GSA manages some chargers for separate federal agencies, so these departments may need to abandon their electric vehicles.

This is also not sure how the agency will replace the obsolete vehicle; possibilities include buying new gasoline-powered models or reassigning older models from retirement.

The development comes after Trump’s recent suspension of the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program, a $5 billion initiative aimed at expanding the U.S. EV charging network. To sum up, these decisions can slow down overall adoption of electric vehicles across the United States. To be sure, it certainly won’t speed it up.