Advocates for electric cars say that an obstacle to having more models on the market in 2011 is the short range that many such EV models can travel without needing a recharge, and a lack of charging infrastructure.
So as a way to encourage more usage, the U.S. Department of Energy has distributed grants for constructing charging stations to a number of U.S. municipalities. One of them is Hillsborough County, and Wednesday at the Board of County Commission's meeting, officials discussed how 10 such charging stations will soon be constructed in Tampa and the county by this fall.
This article appears in Jun 9-15, 2011.