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[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Because America can't run anything as a service, fast charging infrastructure is expensive to maintain and make a profit off of but there was lots of grant money available to build them (and VW had to build a ton of them as part of a legal settlement) but there's no public funds to maintain them, so they aren't.