Biden infrastructure plan takes on EV charging’s inequality problem

FILE PHOTO: An Ionity electric vehicle charging station is pictured on the motorway service station "Dresdner Tor Sued" near Dresden, Germany, August 27, 2019. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse

(Reuters) - The Biden administration has an ambitious $7.5 billion plan to expand electric vehicle charging to underserved areas, but it must first overcome a host of obstacles that have discouraged private investment in more equitable charging networks.

The experience of California - the U.S. state with the largest number of EVs and the most advanced charging infrastructure - shows how challenging it will be to achieve the goals in the $1 trillion infrastructure spending proposal Biden wants Congress to pass.