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Electric cars are almost nonexistent in Black, Latino, low-income, and rural communities revealing the enormous task that California faces electrifying the entire fleet.
Shiny electric cars are parked in the driveways of affluent Palo Alto, Atherton homes, but is the trend gaining ground in less-affluent communities and what might hinder it?
Communities with high concentrations of electric cars are affluent, college-educated and at least 75% white and Asian. In contrast, electric cars are almost nonexistent in Black, Latino, low-income and rural communities.