The Department of Transportation Office has partnered Friday another $636 million in funding will be awarded to 49 applicants for electric charging infrastructure — and Tesla’s application for nearly $100 million to fund a big rig charging corridor has also been passed.

Tesla’s name was not on the list of recipients released, and its partner in the project, the South Coast Air Quality Management District of California, confirmed to TechCrunch that the company applied for this round.

The snub comes as Tesla struggles to get its electric big rig program up and running. The company delivers some early versions of the so-called Tesla Semi to customers such as Pepsi and Frito-Lay. But its larger commercial program has yet to materialize. The company is even building a facility in Nevada where it plans to build its electric semi truck, which was unveiled in 2017.

Tesla first requested funding in 2023 from the so-called Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) program, part of a bipartisan infrastructure agreement President Biden signed into law in 2021. At the time, the company hoped to use that funding, along with $24 million of its own cash, to build nine electric semi-truck charging stations between its former headquarters in northern California to the southern Texas border.

Each of the stations must have eight 750kW chargers for the Tesla Semi, and four more chargers open to other electric trucks – a requirement for federal funding.

The project, officially called “Transport Electrification Supporting Semis Operating in Arizona, California, and Texas,” or TESSERACT, is past early 2024 when the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) of the Department of Transportation announced the first round of CFI awards. That first round saw $623 million in funding go to 47 applicants.

The FHWA awarded another $521 million to 51 applicants drawn from the same pool in August 2024. The agency also began accepting applications for a new round of funding in mid-2024.

Tesla continues to pursue the corridor charging idea even though it is already out of the first phase, TechCrunch reported in April 2024. Former policy VP Rohan Patel said at the time that some of the sites along the 1,800-mile route were “no-brainers without funding.”

The status of Project TESSERACT was unclear after that, however, as Tesla laid off more than 10% of its workforce and, in particular, destroyed its charging team.

There may be another round of CFI funds available, as the bipartisan infrastructure law appropriates $2.5 billion for the program. The FHWAs website as the CFI program currently says there is “(n)o estimated date” for the next “funding opportunity announcement,” however, and it is unclear what impact the incoming Trump administration will have priorities of programs like this.