The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy spent $900,000 on Wednesday to ensure folks who can afford electric vehicles have places to recharge as they cruise Lake Michigan’s shoreline.

“Michiganders who have made the transition to electric vehicles need to know accessible, reliable charging stations are available to them as they enjoy everything our state has to offer,” EGLE Director Phil Roos said in a statement.

“The Lake Michigan Circuit will allow travelers to experience Lake Michigan and visit our coastal communities and attractions along and around the route,” Roos said. “This is not only a step in building out our charging infrastructure, it’s an opportunity to offer the best new road trip for electric vehicle owners across the country.”

The spending, appropriated from the Volkswagen Settlement Trust last year, will go through 17 grants to eight applicants to install a total of 23 chargers in communities along the lakeshore from New Buffalo to Manistique, equating to nearly $40,000 each.

“The Lake Michigan Circuit perfectly aligns with our state’s vision of providing greater access to charging infrastructure for all Michiganders.” said Michigan Chief Mobility Officer Justine Johnson. “Together, we are dedicated to collaborating across state government and with our partners in education and industry to advance our promise of accessible and sustainable mobility options.”

The Lake Michigan Circuit is an EV charging initiative along the lake’s 1,100 miles of shoreline that’s intended to support coastal tourism in Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana and “provide EV drivers a long-distance road trip free from range anxiety.”

Both the spending and the circuit complement Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s goal of registering 2 million EVs in the Great Lakes State by 2023. Through the first quarter of 2024, the state had 46,792 registered EVs, suggesting the state would need to register about 29,000 in each of the next 67 months to meet the governor’s goal, according to Michigan Capitol Confidential.

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The money for EV chargers also aligns with Whitmer’s MI Healthy Climate Plan to cut carbon emissions in Michigan to 28% below 1990 levels by 2025, and to shift to “fully carbon-neutral” by 2050. The Biden administration has set similar goals for the country.

Democrats who took control of the state legislature in 2022 for the first time in 40 years have spent billions on business incentive deals with companies tied to the Chinese Communist Party to move closer to those goals. Lawmakers also approved additional $30 million in the $82.5 billion 2025 budget for EV charging infrastructure.

The 2025 budget is now awaiting Whitmer’s signature.

Meanwhile, EV sales are slowing and many of those who have purchased one are showing signs of buyer’s regret.

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There’s also issues with Michigan EV incentive deals involving nondisclosure agreements with companies tied to the Chinese Communist Party, slave labor in the supply chain, environmental and national security concerns, and public resistance to the government-imposed transition to EVs.

A whopping 63% of the 584 likely Michigan general election voters surveyed by Remington Research Group between June 29 and July 1 told pollsters they oppose gas vehicle bans, according to results released by the NFIB on Wednesday.

The vast majority surveyed – 68% – said a candidate’s position on stopping bans on new gas cars “is an important factor in their vote.”

The survey is in response to increased EPA emissions standards finalized by the Biden administration in March that the American Petroleum Institute suggests effectively outlaws all current model vehicles with the exception of EVs and five plug in hybrids.

“This new polling underscores what we have been hearing from the American people of all political stripes for months—that they do not want the government banning gas cars, mandating electric vehicles or imposing regulations that restrict access to the types of cars that best meet a family’s needs and budget,” said Chet Thompson, CEO of the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers.

Michigan’s EV spending spree comes amid numerous reports detailing how residents are struggling to survive skyrocketing inflation in recent years.

Former President Trump, meanwhile, is campaigning to reverse Biden’s EV policies, suggesting that continuing the government-imposed transition to electric would result in an economic “bloodbath” for the U.S. automotive industry, NBC News reports.

Trump this week selected his vice presidential running mate: Ohio Sen. JD Vance, who is also critical of the government’s support of the EV industry.

Vance in September introduced a Drive American Act to eliminate over $100 billion in existing EV taxpayer subsidies and replace them with up to $7,500 in rebates on all new gasoline- and diesel-powered passenger vehicles.

“Right now, the official policy of the Biden administration is to spend billions of dollars on subsidies for electric vehicles made overseas,” Vance said in September. “If we’re subsidizing anything, it ought to be Ohio workers – not the green energy daydreams that are offshoring their jobs to China. We can secure a bright future for American autoworkers by passing this legislation and reversing the misguided policies of the Biden administration.”