Michigan Plans First EV-Charging Road
September 23, 2021
Michigan, home to the first mile of paved road in the United States, is now planning the first road that will enable electric vehicles to recharge wirelessly while on the move. Backers say the one-mile stretch will demonstrate the kind of technology that could boost the transition to EVs. But as John D. Graham, Keith B. Belton, and Suri Xia note in Issues, the United States and its automakers will need to take a broad array of policy and technological steps, which the authors detail, to advance production and use of EVs—and to catch up with world-leading China in the process.