The Future of Electric Cars - Infrastructure Needs & Other Challenges
This week two Duke scholars, Timothy Johnson and Jennifer Weiss, discussed the benefits and challenges of President Biden's infrastructure plan to invest $174 billion in incentives for electric vehicle technology. While electric vehicles are growing in popularity, they still face hurdles as they head toward mainstream acceptance among drivers, and here's what the experts had to say:
“The thing we think about the most would be charging stations for light-duty or private vehicles, the vehicles we use to get around in our daily lives. Building out charging networks."
-- Johnson
“We right now have seen the infrastructure going in on these main corridors, the main highways in North Carolina. But there’s been more talk, especially in tourist areas, of building out infrastructure. So, along our coast in North Carolina, or the mountains."
-- Weiss