A Chevy Bolt and a Ford Lightning Drive Up to a Tesla Supercharger …

• The Biden administration plans to have 500,000 EV recharging stations built across the nation by 2030 as part of the bipartisan infrastructure bill.

• The legislation requires an infrastructure that makes charging a reliable experience, with 97% uptime.

• The Federal Highway Administration requires a minimum of four ports at a charging station to receive funding, whether DC fast charger, AC Level 2, or a combo of the two.

Beaches from the Silver Strand in Oxnard, California, to El Quemao in the Canary Islands have long been the site of “surf wars” where locals do not like to share their waves with others.

A National Geographic blog published April 26, 2016, describes how “A ‘gang’ of local surfers, dubbed the Bay Boys, have been driving interlopers—fellow surfers, the general public, even the media—from their beach on Lunada Bay (Palos Verdes Estates, California) since the 1970s.”

This sort of surfing culture came to mind last week (Feb. 15) when the White House released its fact sheet announcing “new standards and major progress for a Made-in-America National Network of Electric Vehicle Chargers.”

Of myriad private initiatives supporting the Biden administration’s plan to have 500,000 EV recharging stations built across the nation by 2030 as part of the bipartisan infrastructure bill, the one that media emphasized was Tesla’s deal to make “at least 7500 chargers available for all EVs by the end of 2024. … The open chargers will be distributed across the United States. They will include at least 3500 new and existing 250-kW Superchargers along highway corridors to expand freedom of travel for all EVs, and Level 2 Destination Charging at locations like hotels and restaurants in urban and rural locations.”

By the weekend The Wall Street Journal reported that some loyal Tesla owners were “unnerved” by the plan. One Seattle Tesla owner told the newspaper that Superchargers in his city are already overrun with demand and opening the network to others will compound the problem.

Tesla, which does not have a PR department save possibly for CEO Elon Musk’s Twitter, has long promised to open its Superchargers to other brands (which use a different connector standard), so there’s no reason to believe Tesla drivers “balking” at the plan will get as militant as, say, the Bay Boys.

In fact, we reached our Tesla-owner friend “Pat” in the middle of recharging. Pat doesn’t share the concerns of the Tesla owners the WSJ interviewed.

“I think it’s a good thing: The interoperability of all chargers is probably going to be more helpful longer term than any short-term congestion.” Pat welcomes the potential reinvestment of Tesla’s share of the $7.5-billion infrastructure money back into the network. “As long as they mind the wait times, the more the merrier,” Pat says.

Since White House release of the details, @TeslaCharging tweeted, “Our US network will more than double by the end of 2024 to support our growing Tesla fleet and new EV customers.” It received 625 retweets, 5674 likes, and 135 retweets, including one owner who replied; “Just curious, is there any priority given for Tesla owners?”