The Office to Bring Together the Department of Transportation and the Department of Energy for EV charging is gone.

The Joint Office of Energy and Technology, an unusual federal office that was established by a bipartisan act of Congress in 2021, has been so deeply affected by efforts to shrink the government that it now appears to exist primarily on paper.

The Joint Office, as it was commonly known, was set up as a bridge between the Department of Transportation and the Department of Energy. Their area of overlap: electric vehicles. One of the office’s main tasks was to support the rollout of federally funded EV chargers. EVs were a top priority for the Biden administration — and a top target for rollbacks by the Trump administration.

Camila Domonoske