U.S. lawmakers make push for electric vehicles, charging stations


FILE PHOTO: U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) leads a news conference to re-introduce the Green New Deal at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. April 20, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers are pushing for tens of billions of dollars in funding to shift to electric vehicles and away from gas-powered vehicles and build hundreds of thousands of charging stations.

Representatives Andy Levin and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday are unveiling a revised version of their bill dubbed the "Electric Vehicle Freedom Act" to create a network of high-speed charging stations within five years along the public roads of the national highway system in the United States.

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