GSA guides federal agencies to retain only mission-critical EV charging stations

April 24, 2025 — The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) issued a memorandum on April 3 to tenants in federal facilities under its jurisdiction. The memorandum provides agencies with the criteria to be used to justify that any electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure is mission critical. Charging infrastructure not deemed mission critical will be deactivated and associated contracts or orders will be terminated. This is the first step in GSA’s process of evaluating the mission critical needs of its partner agencies for EV charging infrastructures. 

GSA is quickly correcting course on efforts to install electric vehicle charging ports and looks forward to working closely with our federal agency partners to stop wastefully spending taxpayer dollars on charging stations that are not used or needed.

Public Buildings Service Commissioner Michael P. Peters

GSA Directive 5605.1B, issued March 3, 2025, establishes that no new charging station installations are authorized, and federal agencies must provide a written determination stating they have a mission-critical need to charge electric vehicles at a GSA-managed facility.

Since the President issued the Unleashing American Energy Executive Order on January 20, 2025, GSA has canceled 32 electric vehicle charging projects worth over $23 million, with additional savings expected.