Maryland has received a $15 million federal grant from the Biden-Harris administration to build 58 electric vehicle charging stations to be spread throughout the state.
Through the market and subsidies, electric vehicles are becoming more affordable but a lack of charging stations remains a barrier, especially in historically underinvested communities.
West Baltimore’s Coppin State University will get two stations. That’s where Governor Wes Moore, along with federal transportation leaders and U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, made the announcement Friday.
“You know who gets hurt most by the climate crisis?” asked Moore. “It’s oftentimes the people who get hurt in the whole series of crises that we deal with… the same communities that continue to be left behind.”
Read more (and listen) at WYPR.
Oh, I didn’t know it’s the disadvantage community residents were the ones buying electric vehicles. That makes sense that they would need charging stations close by. Just like it made sense to install bike lanes along the ditch of the curb where no one bikes and reduce intersections to 90 degree turns.
Perhaps the cost of EVs is decreasing. But the “disadvantaged communities and many “middle class” cannot afford them. Why put them in communities of those who cannot afford them??
Where are the grants for assisting people to get the necessities of life?
How many people does Moore think will buy an EV that live in Baltimore City? More money down the drain.