How to use $2 billion VW diesel fine for electric-car charging: advocate offers advice

2014 BMW i3 REx fast-charging at Chargepoint site, June 2016  [photo: Tom Moloughney]

The Volkswagen diesel emission scandal erupted last September, when the EPA formally issued a Notice of Violation to one of the world’s three largest automakers for willfully violating U.S. emission laws for seven years. Since then, much speculation has appeared over what forms of punishment VW would face and how much it would have to pay. We now… …read more