Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
PAS QuickNotes 100
By Joseph DeAngelis, AICP
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After years of false starts, the time of electric vehicles (EVs) has finally arrived. Advancements in battery storage and vehicle range, lower prices, and federal investments and incentives are helping to pave the way for the mainstreaming of EVs. The rapid deployment of EV charging infrastructure is essential to maintaining this momentum.
To help realize the wider benefits of EV adoption, especially the promised reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful forms of pollution associated with fossil fuels, it is essential for planners to understand the evolving state of EV charging stations and how to maximize their benefits at the local level.
This edition of PAS QuickNotes describes EV charging infrastructure and highlights questions of distribution as well as technological change and disruption that planners will need to address to ensure that charging stations are deployed equitably across communities.
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About the Author
Joseph DeAngelis, AICP
Joe DeAngelis, AICP, is a planner and research manager at the American Planning Association, where he manages projects on climate adaptation, natural hazard risk, and community resilience. Joe has co-authored a variety of publications while at APA, including the 2020 Planning Advisory Service Report “Planning for Infrastructure Resilience” and since 2021, APA’s annual Trend Report. Joe is also the co-author of the upcoming report “Exploratory Scenario Planning for Hazard Mitigation and Climate Adaptation.” Before coming to APA in 2016, Joe worked as a Resilience Planner for the New York City Department of City Planning, where he focused on post-Hurricane Sandy recovery and long-term redevelopment. He holds a Master of Urban Planning degree from CUNY-Hunter College.