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"AP Fact Check: Biden Takes Half-Steps on Electric Vehicles"

"WASHINGTON — Eager to show benefits from his policies, President Joe Biden is overstating the number of electric vehicle charging stations that would be built with his infrastructure law and claiming a speedy shift to electric in the federal fleet that isn’t so.

Biden says he is fulfilling campaign promises but does not acknowledge that several of his claims rely on passage of a $2 trillion climate and social safety net plan stalled in Congress.

His initiatives will take more than a decade to accomplish if they are completed at all.

Meanwhile, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., employed a false premise in assailing Biden’s plans for EV charging stations along highways as a “government forced” Green New Deal. States don’t have to accept the federal grants offered for the charging stations, and top automakers were already taking steps toward producing electric cars before Biden acted."

Hope Yen, Matthew Daly, and Tom Krisher report for the Associated Press February 15, 2022.

Source: AP, 02/16/2022