<story><title>California approves $768M for electric vehicles</title><url>https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Energy-revolution-California-approves-massive-12957685.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghouse</author><text>I drive a EV with a range &amp;gt; 200 miles.  Utility-customer funded chargers strike me as a solution tomorrow for a problem of yesterday -- limited EV range.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmode</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know what this means. I have an EV also and the biggest barrier to EV adoption is charging infrastructure. I have a charger at home, but realize that many more people live in apartments and condos that require that infrastructure. Further, there are days when I forget to charge, and would really benefit from a quick 40-50 mile charging at a public location. Charging infrastructure is definitely a necessity.</text></comment>
<story><title>California approves $768M for electric vehicles</title><url>https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Energy-revolution-California-approves-massive-12957685.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghouse</author><text>I drive a EV with a range &amp;gt; 200 miles.  Utility-customer funded chargers strike me as a solution tomorrow for a problem of yesterday -- limited EV range.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>biggc</author><text>According to: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dot.ca.gov&amp;#x2F;hq&amp;#x2F;tsip&amp;#x2F;hpms&amp;#x2F;hpmslibrary&amp;#x2F;prd&amp;#x2F;prd2010.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dot.ca.gov&amp;#x2F;hq&amp;#x2F;tsip&amp;#x2F;hpms&amp;#x2F;hpmslibrary&amp;#x2F;prd&amp;#x2F;prd2010.p...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;California has 172,138 miles of maintained roads, 63,856 if we don&amp;#x27;t include &amp;quot;Local&amp;quot; roads.&lt;p&gt;There are certainly many stretches of road in the state that could use charging stations in order to be accessible by EV.</text></comment>