The Federal Highway Administration suspends federal funding for electric vehicle charging stations pending review of program costs and benefits.

The FHWA has issued a directive suspending all state plans for EV infrastructure deployment under the NEVI Formula Program.

The NEVI program was part of the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law which allocated $5 billion over five years to install chargers in every state.

In a memo released Thursday, the Federal Highway Administration ordered states to halt a $5 billion program to build fast EV chargers on highways nationwide — an initiative that President Donald Trump cited as an example of the “Green New Deal.

Federal Highway Administration officials said they were suspending the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program.

While the program isn’t dead, the Federal Highway Administration recently wrote to state transportation directors to inform them that the new leadership of the U.S. Department o

Washington was in line to receive $71 million for chargers along I-5 and other roads. But the U.S. Department of Transportation says it will revamp the program.

North Carolina had received $109 million from the Biden-era NEVI program to encourage businesses to place chargers in under-served areas.

Experts are questioning President Donald Trump’s latest effort to slow the electric vehicle charging buildout in the U.S. In a letter Thursday night, the Trump administration directed states to stop spending money for EV charging infrastructure,