Amid electric vehicle boom, US seeks to flood ‘charging deserts’

US electric vehicle sales grew by 85% from 2020 to 2021, the government said in March, making the country the world’s third-largest EV market behind China and Europe – but also raising growing concerns about inequitable access to public charging. — AP

TEMPLE HILLS, Maryland: The electric vehicle charger had shown up at the park only a month earlier, but already Lonte was envisioning himself using it.

“It did catch my eye,” the 32-year-old said on a sunny June morning while preparing to exercise at a park in Prince George’s County, a majority-Black community outside Washington, D.C.