Trump to shut down all 8,000 EV charging ports at federal govt buildings
Trump to shut down all 8,000 EV charging ports at federal govt buildings
The Trump administration is shutting down all federal government buildings' EV chargers and expected to sell off the GSA's newly bought EVs.
Bet Tesla will place superchargers right outside the government plots. So Musk can cash in on this.
It just makes no sense economically either. He is screwing over Elon's own company, just to force oil onto consumers. I get the feeling that this administration is straight up doing it for the evilz. Supporting only dictators, telling every lie possible, cutting government agencies that help, while creating new ones to steal your tax anyway.
Incoming ICE Tesla
How are they gonna charge the $400 million worth of cybertrucks they ordered for the military?
Ooooh, haha, I just found this: Trump administration says it has no plans to fulfill $400 million 'armored Tesla' contract - https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g-s1-48571/trump-administration-order-400-million-worth-of-armored-teslas
What does the president think about this?
This will definitely lower the price of eggs.
This feels more damn petty than Regan taking solar panels off the Whitehouse. Like these chargers were already installed, they weren't costing a damn thing, and now they're going to spend money to have perfectly good infrastructure sit unused. Fucking morons.
gods i fucking hate it here
Lol what a jackass
2026: Tesla stops manufacturing cars and pivots to humanoid robotics, with Ai enabled control and dedicated starlink network.
We're gonna be killing robots in the streets by the end of the decade.
Nah, more likely robots will be killing minorities and kids in the streets. It will be illegal to harm the robots. They fulfill the will of the oligarchs
Don't worry, he'll just give Musk another $50 million government contract to redo them. And by "redo", I mean turn them back on.
Shameful. Reminds me of when Reagan had the solar panels removed from the roof of the White House.
This is really funny imo.
We are past the time when green technology needs a boost.
We are now at a time when green tech is the cheapest solution.
So these are all theatre, cause green will be the obvious choice for those who think about the bottom line moving forward.
Cruelty is the point
That's exactly right. These thing were already bought, paid for, installed, and being used. This is just a fuck-you to anyone who cares about the environment. Why? Because if you care about the environment you probably don't support Trump.
I'd just not show up to work.
The NIH used to have an electric outlet with a large sign saying EV charging:D Spending 60 hours on a 1KW trickle charge on the guvmint's dime is awesome!
1.3kW so you're still getting a decent bit of charging done
That is offensive and sad. Keeping existing infrastructure that makes a nice employee perk has high value. Cost savings on electricity seems like a bs minimal excuse.
Can he just fucking... disappear? Just take all that money you've stolen from contractors, kompromat from Russia, and bribes from Saudi Arabia and just fuck off. He has a deep hole inside and will never truly be happy, which makes me feel great, but that's a small consolation compared to the destruction of democracy and the entire USA.
Off topic, but any other non-US people here, how are you reacting to the USA's facism on hyperdrive streak?
I don't think the US has ever been the most popular country, but now the president is trying to eradicate palestine, disrupt European security from Russia, and plunge the world into a climate apocalypse at an even faster than before rate, I feel a lot worse about any interactions with the USA. I've been trying to move away from using anything US produced or owned, which isn't particularly easy.
Is it just me? Was I naive to think US was any better before? Am I naive in singling out the US?
I'm in Canada.
Since Bush W, I saw the blatant writing on the wall of the direction the US was going. Trump version 1 seemed like a clown show and I assumed things would get worse but it would take 20-30 more years. I never once thought we'd see a Trump version 2.
I think this is probably the end of the USA as we once knew it. Trump is on a speedrun to crash everything. The American people are either cheering it on or apathetic. The public won't stop him. The opposition in US government seems unable to deal with Trump because he clearly doesn't give a shit about decorum, rules, or law.
I guess we all realize empires eventually fall. The US got itself here from it's own hubris. It's time.
I do worry being right next door and both the US and Russia eyeballing our northern routes and resources. More and more I'm coming to terms with probably dying defending my country from a direct attack. Something I never really worried about until last November.
It's a scary time
I've always seen the US as a somewhat virulent imperial power, and it made a clear and decisive break with international law back in 2001 which successive administrations have never walked back, so it's been a bit of a rogue/outlier state for the past 24 years.
That said I think what we are seeing now is different. The US has just undergone full legislative capture by oligarchs, and they are going ham on the rest of the world.
German here. We are 4 to 8 years away from Nazis becoming elected again, at least very likely. I'm looking with horror towards the US and just hope he burns it down so fast that the right shift looses it's current drive in Europe.
Nah, we can't rely on external signals doing anything like that. We need to make peoples lives better. The right surge is an emotional rectioan amplified by external propaganda, but fundamentally people are right to protest against the current system which keeps impoverishing them. The conclusion of voting right wing is wrong of course.
it's especially hard trying to move away from US produced goods and media for me, as I am in the US
Yeah its tough... At least you can block ads when browsing and pirate digital media pretty easily 🤷♀️
Lithuanian here, a very popular Facebook page keeps posting "Trump is about to wake up, prepare for him saying something stupid" every day.
Canadian here, it pains me to admit that my hope at this point is that Trump manages to crash the US so fast that it hits rock bottom before invading us.
Yep, at the moment I don't think most of their military would follow the order,but in a few years they might. Best case scenario America balkanizes before then, and we can make friends with the sane countries like the New California Republic while ignoring the crazy ones like whatever the Mormon theocracy calls their new country
100% chance we're getting Ukrained if he gets the opportunity.
Hi, Aussie here. Entirely expected and unsurprising. I mean Hitler learned from the USA.
Been watching the usa destroy everything nice about Australia for my entire life and waiting for the other shoe to drop. Good luck, please don't our government again if we elect another socialist.
Another Aussie here. We have elections coming up and looking at the US as a cautionary tale for reactionary politics. Hoping it does not translate to success for our Trump-lite candidate here.
dude also purged the generals yesterday
That's kinda ominous.
This isn’t off topic at all. What brand are the chargers currently installed? And when the armored cybertrucks are mandated government vehicles, what brand of chargers will be reinstalled? And at whose order is all of this happening?
Fuuuuuuuuck why? He is actively trying to kill the planet?
People use to complain that Captain Planet had unrealistic villains.
It's called accelerationism. It's the belief that a better society can only come about after a large disruptive event wipes out the current system. Those that survive (lots of billionaires with bunkers) will shape the new society in their eyes. It's real and it's terrifying. Like you I was mystified by the choices of the rich and powerful until I learned about this shit. Now it all makes sense...
Hahahaha
If we truly do lose our modern comfort, tyrants would be the first thing on the chopping block.
Like how it always is, similar to the French Revolution.
They must have watched Fallout TV series and thought "we should do that".
But even if no civilisation ending event happens and billionaires think they could take the helm, people will rise up first. Too many hungry stomachs will not tolerate such brazen wealth inequality and power grab. The only reason that there is hardly any popular revolt yet in America is because many people are still comfortable. Wait until they aren't anymore.
Not even that, it's the religious nutters trying to ponk the apocalypse.
Fun fact: for the theologians they're already at antichrist level
Probably so more people are forced to charge at Tesla stations and pump money to Musk.
The guy already has a monopoly on smart EVs Fuck Musk open up the US to Chinese vehicles so that he has to sit at the big kids table.
We like that lobby money yeees
That will surely lower the cost of eggs! I know people say it all the time, but like cruelty is the point. Why do this? There is no savings, no point, it’s just to be a prick.
Everything he is doing is just to be a prick.
Russia is a petro state. Need I elaborate?
@silence7 Oof. There is going to be hell to pay when the president finds out about this….
Everyone is focusing on musk, not realizing he's trumps patsy. He's the goddamn fall guy. He said some true, but unkind, things about trump and trump doesn't forget slights. If this charade starts to crumble, he's going to point at musk and blame him for everything.
That's just untrue. They believe they're each others' fall guy. In reality Trump is owned by Russia (not exaggerating, look up "American Kompromat"), and Vance is owned by Peter Thiel. We can only hope that Trump's pettiness and Musk's ego can cause this whole house of cards to implode before they completely dismantle American institutions.
Is this going to piss off his boss; Lonely Kumslut? Or is he intending to replace them?
Nah, Mellon Husk stands to benefit if other brands' EV chargers close down
Yeah, that's going to be my guess. Rip out the existing ones, then he sells a bunch of cybertrucks to the government and suddenly those chargers need to be installed, but this time as Tesla superchargers.
These are almost all non-Tesla chargers with a plug which makes them more convenient with other brands.
Edit: fixed who can use the chargers
His boss is the dictator of a major petro state. I'm sure he'll be pleased.
Turnip should sell Elmo's Cyberdump then..