CalMatters: Opinion: California must ensure EV charging access for all
With this month’s U.N. climate conference failing to achieve key agreements that will limit global heating to the crucial 1.5° C goal, it’s vital that California step up our climate leadership.
Recognizing that gas-burning vehicles are the largest source of statewide greenhouse gas emissions – and that the electric vehicle revolution is well underway – Gov. Gavin Newsom set a powerful vision last fall, declaring that all new cars sold in California after 2035 will be zero-emission.
But we won’t achieve this laudable target unless all residents have an affordable, reliable and convenient place to charge EVs: at home. Public charging costs are unregulated and usually much more expensive.
Why then is a key state agency failing to ensure the necessary infrastructure for an equitable transition to EVs?
