“”The state of California is supposed to get couple of 100 millions out of it. The idea of this program was not just to send money to one company that install all the charges and get the best value for charger, but to create the capacity in every state,” said Gil Tal the Director of the Electric Vehicle Research Center.”
“‘For EVs in the U.S., this is somewhere between problematic and a disaster,’ said Dan Sperling, a former California Air Resources Board member and director of the Institute for Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis.”
“’It’s certainly compelling,’ said professor Daniel Sperling, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis. He noted that the fees could yield two benefits at once: “capturing the value” of curb space — a scarce resource in San Francisco — while also managing traffic.”
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