California currently has 350,000 electric cars on the road today, which is far more than any other state. Gov. Jerry Brown wants to put 5 million electric cars on the state’s roads by 2030.
Brown is proposing to meet the new electric car target with a $2.5-billion investment during the next eight years to continue state subsides for car purchases and bring 250,000 vehicle charging stations and 200 hydrogen fueling stations to California by 2025.
“The goal is to make our neighborhoods and farms healthier, our vehicles cleaner — zero emission the sooner the better — and all our technologies increasingly lowering their carbon output,” Brown said in his Thursday State of the State speech.
Read the article at Los Angeles Times.
