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“The state of California is supposed to get couple of 100 millions out of it. The idea of this program was not just to send  money to one company that install all the charges and get the best value for charger, but to create the capacity in every state,” said Gil Tal the Director of the Electric Vehicle Research Center.” Read more here...

“‘For EVs in the U.S., this is somewhere between problematic and a disaster,’ said Dan Sperling, a former California Air Resources Board member and director of the Institute for Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis.” Read more here...

“’It’s certainly compelling,’ said professor Daniel Sperling, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis. He noted that the fees could yield two benefits at once: “capturing the value” of curb space — a scarce resource in San Francisco — while also managing traffic.” Read more here...

“It’s become much more political than it should be, but that’s part of the story,” said Dr. Gil Tal, director of the Electric Vehicle Research Center at UC Davis.” Read more...

“The shift towards electric vehicles is becoming more pronounced, with growing public interest beyond affluent consumers. As Gil Tal, director of EV research at UC Davis, points out, the rising demand for charging infrastructure reflects changing trends in vehicle ownership.” Read more...

The global shift to electric vehicles is in high gear, but it remains uncertain whether the US will reap the benefits of being a global leader in this transition. Putting the brakes on progress now would put hundreds of billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of jobs across the US at risk, and it would allow foreign manufacturers to gain a competitive edge over the US auto industry. Scaling back deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) would also undermine efforts to limit climate change.

Note: this article was updated on Oct 1 after the Governor signed/vetoed all bills.

Widespread adoption of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) is a key strategy to help reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses and pollutants. To help implement this strategy, US federal and state agencies, utilities, and private companies are investing billions of dollars in public PEV charging infrastructure.

DRIVERS answered a recent survey asking if they'd transition from a gas-powered car to an EV - only a third responded positively.

Additionally, men answered they're more likely to buy an EV over women drivers.

The U.S. Sun acquired a survey asking drivers if they'd consider an EV as their next vehicle Read more here...

For more than fifty years, U.S. transportation planners and engineers have focused their energies and our investments on building a transportation system that moves private cars as quickly and efficiently as possible. This worked to make it easy for many people to get around - up to a point. Increasingly, however, a pileup of factors is making it harder and harder to rationalize the practices, funding mechanisms, and even philosophies that made the 20th century the embodiment of personal freedom via driving a car.