Sounds like a politically charged nonsense without context. Like 2 years to purchase and deploy a product someone else engineered - sure, I'd expect more. Two years to build a high voltage/current device that is relatively safe for all the brands of stupid the public comes in... Yeah, I sure as hell hope they test and iterate all that engineering before they go to scale. The last thing we need is another idiot attempt to disappear the problems by simply never making a written record, or murdering all the whistleblowers.

The program provides funding for states to build charging stations. As of the beginning of the year, half of states hadn't even begun to take bids from contractors. Not like Biden can control that.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/05/congress-ev-chargers-billions-00129996

Considering it's the US, the fact that it produced anything at all could be considered more than than expected

Paywall on the article. Does it say why?

That's not bad for government work. Since it seems like this money was allocated and given to states to use for charging stations I would expect to see it fully implemented in 20 years.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

President Biden has long vowed to build 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations in the United States by 2030.

Those stations, the White House said, would help Americans feel confident purchasing and driving electric cars, and help the country cut carbon pollution.

But now, more than two years after Congress allocated $7.5 billion to help build out those stations, only 7 EV charging stations are operational across four states.

And as the Biden administration rolls out its new rules for emissions from cars and trucks — which will require a lot more electric cars and hybrids on the road — the sluggish build-out could slow the transition to electric cars.

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That's because these programs are all designed to embezzle taxpayer money.