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A booming clean energy economy is a persistent bright spot in the pandemic economy, employing hundreds of thousands of Americans. Building the infrastructure network required to charge electric vehicles (EVs) at a scale needed to dramatically reduce both local and global warming pollution means even more clean energy careers.
New analysis informed by industry experts calculated the jobs supported by state and national charging infrastructure goals and reveals:
Charging infrastructure needed to meet California’s EV goals could support about 71,500 job-years over the next decade.
If the Biden administration’s goal of deploying 500,000 EV charging stations is met with public fast charging stations, it could support about 30,000 job-years.