The General Services Administration, the agency that manages buildings owned by the federal government, is planning to shut down its entire network of electric vehicle chargers, according to a report in The Verge.
The GSA reportedly operates a network of hundreds of EV chargers with a total of 8,000 plugs that can be used to charge vehicles owned by the government and by federal employees. A source told The Verge that federal workers will receive guidance next week to shut those chargers down, with some regional offices already told to take their chargers offline.
Earlier this week, Colorado Public Radio obtained an internal email stating that charging stations at the Denver Federal Center would be shut down as they are “not mission critical.”
More broadly, President Donald Trump’s administration has been aggressively cutting government agencies and pulling back federal support for renewable energy, including for an EV charging infrastructure program that previously provided millions to Tesla.
TechCrunch has reached out to the GSA for comment.
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