Should Utility Customers Pay For Electric-Car Charging Stations They Don’t Use?

Electric Avenue charging stations in Portland, Oregon [photo: Portland General Electric]

California is by far the most advanced state in adopting plug-in electric cars. Fully 45.3 percent of the country’s more than 400,000 plug-in cars were sold in California, according to data from the state’s Plug-In Electric Vehicle Collaborative. But electric cars need public charging stations, which raises the question of how they’re paid for… …read more