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Colorado challenges federal 100% EV charger rule
ColoradoBiz Staff //March 16, 2026//
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser is urging federal officials to withdraw a proposal that would require electric vehicle chargers funded with federal dollars to be made entirely with U.S. components.
In Brief:
- Colorado joined a coalition urging the Federal Highway Administration to withdraw a proposed 100% U.S. manufacturing rule for EV chargers.
- Officials said the requirement could delay projects funded through federal EV charging infrastructure programs.
- Current federal rules require chargers to be assembled in the U.S. with at least 55% domestic components.
- The coalition said raising the requirement to 100% would create a standard manufacturers cannot currently meet.
Weiser led a coalition of 19 attorneys general and the governor of Kentucky in a letter to the Federal Highway Administration opposing the rule.
“A 100% domestic manufacturing requirement for EV chargers is simply not realistic today,” Weiser said. “Colorado strongly supports American manufacturing and American jobs, but we also need practical standards that allow states to build the charging infrastructure Congress funded.”
Current federal rules require EV chargers funded through federal infrastructure programs to be assembled in the United States and contain at least 55% domestically manufactured components beginning this fall.
The coalition said raising that requirement to 100% would set a standard that manufacturers cannot meet and could delay or halt charging projects funded through programs such as the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program and the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure program.
The attorneys general also said manufacturers and states have made investments based on the current rules, which gradually increase domestic manufacturing requirements to 55%.
The coalition urged the Federal Highway Administration to withdraw the proposal and keep the current approach.
Attorneys general from Arizona, California, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawai‘i, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Washington joined the letter, along with Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear.
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