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📝 10 strategies for city governments to improve EV charging: https://bit.ly/4cepbr2 A lack of sufficient public charging infrastructure is holding many potential electric vehicle (EV) drivers back. The challenge is particularly acute in cities, where a larger share of residents live in multifamily housing, rent their homes, and/or park on the street — all of which make it difficult, if not impossible to install home charging. City governments can play critical roles creating charging infrastructure in dense areas. Importantly, city government can facilitate access to the public right of way or city-owned property. Cities also write and enforce an array of laws and regulations that affect charging stations. Most city laws and regulations pre-date the emergence of contemporary EVs, which can result in unintended effects on efforts to build charging infrastructure. The stakes are high. Shifting the vehicles traveling through a city’s neighborhoods to zero tailpipe emission EVs will reduce residents’ exposure to pollutants, improve air quality and bring health bene!ts. Many cities have declared their own climate goals that require widespread EV adoption. Public charging is particularly important to enabling lower income households, who are more likely to live in dense neighborhoods and multifamily housing, to own EVs. Moreover, funding is available. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) includes $1.25 billion for community grants to deploy public charging infrastructure. Cities that develop and submit strong plans for EV charging infrastructure deployment to the U.S. Department of Transportation can win funds under the competitive grant program. Their states may also delegate funds from the IIJA’s National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Program after completing their highway charging rollout. Cities may also be able to access other federal grants, loans, and tax credit programs for EV charging. Read the report, produced by the Salata Institute, the MIT - Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, and the Taubman Center for State & Local Government, to learn more 👀