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Biden wants to build 500,000 EV charging stations. Where will they all go? Source: By Shannon Osaka, Grist • Posted: Monday, April 19, 2021
That’s 4 times (!) the number of U.S. gas stations.
It was President Joe Biden’s favorite phrase during the 2020 campaign, one that he repeated over and over again whenever the subject of electric cars came up: “500,000 charging stations.” Despite his reputation as an ardent fan of trains and Amtrak, the president has spent the last year conjuring an image of an America filled with electric vehicles by 2030, each one seamlessly zipping from one charging station to the next.
$9,000 power bill during Texas blackout prompts class-action lawsuit By Irina Ivanova Texans hit with skyrocketing utility bills
A Texas woman who was hit with a $9,000 power bill this month has sued her electricity provider for price gouging in a case that highlights the risks some consumers face in the state s deregulated energy market.
The suit is the first of its kind after a harrowing week of snow and subfreezing temperatures that brought on skyrocketing energy prices for thousands of customers in the state and blackouts for millions of others. The economic toll of the extreme weather event could top $200 billion, putting the freeze on par with some of the costliest natural disasters to hit the United States.
Was 2020 The Year That EVs Hit it Big? Almost, But Not Quite
Despite significant breakthroughs, sales of electric vehicles were largely stagnant, and the cost of the cars puts them still out of reach for most Americans.
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A charging cable is plugged into a Volvo electric vehicle in London on Nov. 18, 2020. Credit: Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images
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In the energy world, 2020 was both unsettling and exciting, a year when the coronavirus pandemic drove billions of people to change their patterns of driving, flying and public transportation use, just as an unprecedented transition away from fossil fuels was gaining speed. Oil markets cratered, but clean energy appeared to emerge unscathed, if not stronger.