Legislation that both tightens and expands coverage of Buy America rules governing federal infrastructure spending passed with the big, honkin’ Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) in 2021. And, as noted in an Alliance for American Manufacturing opinion published recently in the Columbus (OH) Dispatch, we’re waiting on the federal government to issue lots of standards for those updates.
As of this morning, though, we’re not waiting on the standards for electric vehicle (EV) chargers. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today revealed them and, effective immediately, all EV chargers produced by companies tapping the billions made available to them in the BIL must be assembled in America, and by 2024 55% of their component costs must be sourced from the U.S.
