Communities and Governments Want Fair Playing Field In EV Charging

Communities and Governments Want Fair Playing Field In EV Charging

A pay and charging station for what is being billed as the nation's largest 'Electric Vehicle' (EV) ... [+] car sharing program for disadvantaged communities was unveiled by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti in Los Angeles on June 9, 2017. - The service backed by the French company Blue Solutions will not be fully operational until later in 2017 and will eventually consist of 100 electric cars and 200 chargers, with self-service stations located across the city. (Photo by Mark RALSTON / AFP) (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images) If you build the charging stations, the electric vehicle (EV) purchasers will come. That is the premise upon which the Biden administration is banking its promise to build 500, 000 new charging stations to help move forward the tipping point towards the climate-friendly technology. Where you build them – and accordingly, which EV purchasers you are encouraging – is the next question. Those looking at the history of transportation say that making charging stations accessible to lower-income communities is one way to ease the disproportionate pollution burden that they carried in U. S. highway development. "For the last 70 years, the impact of fossil fuel burning cars has