Even if electric vehicles are the future — and trust me, they are — the world doesn’t always move in unison toward an obvious, less planet-polluting, destiny. Exhibit A: America’s extreme lack of electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
Electric trucks, SUVs, sedans, bikes, scooters, and heck, even boats, are cropping up on a near-daily basis, but the infrastructure to charge said vehicles on the fly has continued its glacial lag. I was already aware of the utter lack of charging stations when I joined my EV-owning parents for a road trip this summer, but witnessing the issue firsthand was nothing short of deflating.
