Eighteen months ago, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)—which manages facilities and logistics support for the federal government’s sprawling network of office buildings—was openly celebrating its efforts to get more fleet and employee vehicles to go all-electric. But 2025 is a very different time in the federal government, and now the GSA is reportedly shutting down all EV chargers on federal properties nationwide.
An email memo circulated around the government indicates federal workers are to begin shutting down the chargers as early as next week. The news was originally reported by Colorado Public Radio and corroborated by The Verge today.
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“As GSA has worked to align with the current administration, we have received direction that all GSA-owned charging stations are not mission-critical,” the memo reads. (InsideEVs has sought comment from GSA’s media relations office; we will update this story if we hear back. We have also requested the memo and documents related to this decision via the Freedom of Information Act.)
At the same time, several pages on the GSA’s website related to EV chargers and fleet electrification efforts are now offline. One page that listed a map of nationwide charging ports now redirects to an error message, as does a page about the government’s “electrification resources and training” efforts.
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The moves may well be tied to efforts to reduce the federal workforce, unilaterally (and potentially illegally) shut down entire government agencies and cut leases on federal buildings. Until that happens, however, neither government vehicles nor privately owned vehicles operated by federal workers or guests will be able to use these nearly 8,000 chargers. Colorado Public Radio indicates those include plugs at the Denver Federal Center.
While President Trump said on the campaign trail that he is “for electric cars,” his administration has acted to the contrary. He issued an executive order to end what he falsely called President Biden’s EV mandate, ordered a halt to federal EV fast-charging funding and is targeting an end to the EV tax credits. As far as the GSA is concerned, it was tasked with phasing out many of the government’s fossil-fuel-powered vehicles with zero-emission ones, once requiring that all light-duty federal acquisitions be electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles by the end of 2027.
That target may have already been difficult to achieve given the relative dearth of affordable EV options on the market in 2025. But Trump’s moves have put the auto industry—which has invested billions of dollars into EV and battery manufacturing, particularly in red states—into a tailspin. Moreover, this decision will make it much harder for any of the already-purchased electric government vehicles to operate and could cost taxpayers more if the GSA wholly switches back to gas-powered vehicles.
The Trump administration has proven extremely friendly to fossil fuel interests, however, especially after petroleum-related groups poured nearly $100 million into his reelection efforts in 2023 and 2024. A number of high-ranking officials in his administration also have ties to large petroleum firms. He has rewarded these groups with wide-scale expansions of drilling rights on public lands, which were already expanded during his first term.
So while the rest of the world moves to stake a claim on the future of clean technology, Trump continues to double down on the past.
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