Grand Rapids City Manager Mark Washington confirmed the $1.5 million grant was recently rescinded and excluded from the budget proposal he presented to the City Commission Tuesday.
City officials announced the grant back on January 10th. Awarded under the Biden administration, funding came from both the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Charging and Fueling Infrastructure program and the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program.
Money dedicated to installing eight electric vehicle charging stations throughout the city for a total of 32 charging ports.
Grand Rapids was one of nearly 50 U.S. cities and territories awarded over $15 million to install more than 11,000 charging ports across the country. Former President Biden had set a goal of having 500,000 publicly available EV chargers nationwide by 2030.
President Trump revoked Biden’s 2035 target of half of all new U.S. vehicle sales be electric models and the Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering emission standards.
