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WASHINGTON—President Biden’s ambitious plan to fund a network of electric vehicle charging stations could be a shot-in-the-arm for the EV industry, but it leaves a myriad of legal, technical and budgetary problems still to be addressed.

President Joe Biden is prioritizing a national EV charging network under his $2 trillion infrastructure bill, promising to have at least 500,000 of the devices installed across the U.S. by 2030.

Cathy Zoi, chief executive, said EVgo was more than a commodity supplier, operating chargers that were reliable and located at shopping centres and supermarkets. “It’s more than just being a pass-through of electricity: it’s actually a sophisticated network of fast chargers across the country that we keep running at 98 per cent uptime,” she said.

With plans to eliminate the country's carbon footprint by 2050, Joe Biden could easily be the greenest president in American history. But achieving such a flashy goal will involve plenty of work in much more mundane areas, like having enough spots to charge a rapidly growing fleet of electric vehicles.

Adding Tesla Connectors was a bit of coup for EVgo, we find out why Tesla allowed it.

From the perspective of Jonathan Levy, chief commercial officer for electric vehicle charging company EVgo Services, it’s only a matter of time before EVs phase out the gas-guzzling cars and trucks that now dominate the auto market.

General Motors CEO Mary Barra’s recent announcement that the world’s fourth-largest automaker wants to eliminate tailpipe emissions from new light-duty vehicles by 2035 was met with excitement across the media.

What started in San Francisco will soon extend nationwide. EVgo on Thursday announced it will retrofit hundreds of its current electric car-charging stations with Tesla plugs to accept the automaker's vehicles. EVgo started the process in the Bay Area in 2019, but this year it's ready to invite Tesla owners to stations outside the company's own Supercharger network. Tesla vehicles require a specific connector that other charging standards don't accommodate, at least not here in the US.