[HN Gopher] Governor signs bills creating EV charging station ne...
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       Governor signs bills creating EV charging station network across
       Wisconsin
        
       Author : toomuchtodo
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2024-03-20 22:07 UTC (53 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (apnews.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (apnews.com)
        
       | superkuh wrote:
       | A good first step to the chicken and egg problem. Living in
       | Wisconsin I have _never_ seen an electrical charging station.
       | 
       | >Local government entities and state agencies would not be
       | allowed to operate public charging stations but could run their
       | own stations to charge their vehicles.
       | 
       | I'm confused at why this was included in the regulation. Would
       | companies really refuse to build stations without this
       | stipulation? It reminds me a lot of telecommunications companies
       | lobbying hard against municipal and related telecommunications
       | services.
        
         | zdragnar wrote:
         | > in Wisconsin I have never seen an electrical charging station
         | 
         | As per the article, in Wisconsin any company that did would be
         | regulated as a utility company; the law makes exemptions so
         | non-utilities can set them up.
         | 
         | > Would companies really refuse to build stations without this
         | stipulation?
         | 
         | The funds that are freed up are federal funds. No idea if
         | that's a result of the above deregulation, or if those funds
         | can't be used directly by municipalities.
         | 
         | Either way, as a business owner I'd be hard pressed to invest
         | in putting chargers in my parking lot if the city came along
         | and put in a bunch for street level parking.
        
       | Upvoter33 wrote:
       | Does this mean Tesla charging or ... ?
        
         | Moto7451 wrote:
         | Eventually it's all NACS/J3400 in North America, which is the
         | "Tesla Charger" but the J1772 wire protocol and some additions
         | to help adoption. For example, you can run two phases from
         | commercial 480v three phase commercial power to charge at 270v.
         | 
         | As a J1772 equipped driver, I don't mind eventually needing an
         | adapter since I don't personally use DC fast charging very
         | often.
        
       | ortusdux wrote:
       | I'll note that this is part of FHWA and DOE's Alternate Fuel
       | Corridors program, and many states applied for and got similar
       | grants.
       | 
       | https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/alternative_fuel_corrid...
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       | https://afdc.energy.gov/corridors
       | 
       | Personally, I'm glad most of the money seems to be going to
       | electric charging stations vs hydrogen and alternate hydrocarbon
       | fueling stations. I also would have preferred if the program had
       | focused on installing charging stations at the ~1400 highway rest
       | stations across the country instead of giving grants to business
       | to help them install stations.
        
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