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Half of them will be at places like gas stations and shopping centers along major highways and can charge in as little as 20 minutes. The other half can take hours. Those will be at places like city buildings, parks, and attractions like the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Children's Museum.

Indiana was well on its way to installing electric vehicle chargers along interstate highways using nearly $100 million in federal funds. But the Trump administration put that funding on hold. A statewide EV education initiative wants people to know there's still some money available for chargers out there — even if it's not nearly as much.

The alliance has chosen its own preferred locations for the federally-funded chargers in its Indiana Electric Vehicle Charging Neighbor-Hood Green Book. The book is a nod to the segregation-era guidebook that listed safe places to stop for Black travelers.

Indianapolis is among the worst in the country for energy efficiency, according to the report by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. Transportation is a main factor contributing to Indianapolis’s low score as it makes up about third of the city’s total carbon emissions.

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg highlighted Indiana’s role in helping build the future of electric vehicles Friday.

The EV projects could have a big impact on the climate. Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.

Panelists at an Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute event proposed policies and solutions to things such as housing availability and electric vehicle production.

Purdue University and the Indiana Department of Transportation will start construction this week on a segment of highway capable of charging electric semi-trucks as they drive over it.

The goal is to lessen the fear of running out of power on the road, something that can keep people from adopting EVs. And 40 percent of the benefits of the program are supposed to go to disadvantaged communities. But an equity group said the state isn't putting in the effort to make sure that happens.

General Motors long argued its battery plants have no legal or practical path to be made part of the same United Auto Workers union contract as the rest of its manufacturing workers. On Friday, the UAW announced the company has now agreed to do just that in a last-ditch effort to avoid a potentially devastating strike.