The Boston Globe recently reported on efforts to improve EV charging in Massachusetts. The story opened noting that electric vehicles “are known for rapid acceleration, but as Massachusetts highway officials plot how to spend $60 million of federal money to improve EV charging, they’re taking it slow at first. Too slow, for some observers. And don’t even mention the Mass. Turnpike charging problems.”

You can read the full piece by clicking here. The story includes comments from me:

“I’m encouraged that they’re finally moving but I wish this had moved at a much faster rate,” Representative Jeff Roy, chair of the legislature’s Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy, said in an interview.

But Roy said he was “extremely disappointed” about the lack of progress on the Mass. Turnpike. MassDOT has engaged a contractor to replace the six 2017 chargers with similar technology, but the contractor won’t add more or newer charging terminals.

“It’s frustrating to me when I see that Tesla has been able to build a rather robust network around the nation,” Roy said.

This story came on the heels of another story noting that as EV sales growth slows, Mass. car dealers ask Biden to ‘tap the brakes’ on electric transition. The dealers noted that unsold EVs are stacking up, with a 100-day supply on hand. The dealers wrote to the President and let him know that the difficulty of getting reliable access to charging stations is discouraging EV sales.

We need to do better on these fronts if we are going to move consumers to electric vehicles and reach our goal of 900,000 on the road by 2030.