Big Infrastructure Boost for Electric Vehicles
November 9, 2021
The newly enacted infrastructure bill allocates $7.5 to build a nationwide network of charging stations for electric vehicles. This reflects one of numerous actions that John D. Graham, Keith B. Belton, and Suri Xia recommend in Issues to speed public adoption of EVs. In a detailed plan, they call for new government policies to make the United States more competitive in manufacturing EVs and to make EVs more appealing to consumers. Toward these goals, they write, substantial federal support will be needed for technical research and development as well as social science studies to better understand how consumers make buying decisions.