Elon Musk learns how EV charging works from Pete Buttigieg

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You’d deliberation Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and its wide-reaching Supercharger network, would already cognize astir the workings of the national National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) programme that has dedicated $7.5 cardinal to gathering a nationalist charging network. However, helium needed Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg to chime successful connected X yesterday to halt immoderate Republican leaders from spreading misinformation astir the program.

“Please station the rebuttal,” Musk asked Buttigieg nether a Donald Trump Jr. post quoting Ohio congressperson Michael Rulli, who accuses Buttigieg of “squandering billions” to physique “8 EV charging stations.” Buttigieg tells Trump the station is “false.”

As Buttigieg explained, the $7.5 cardinal is “the full program...

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