Without access to charging stations, Black and Hispanic communities may be left behind in the era of electric vehicles

electric car chargingFrom the Washington Post, December 9, 2021.

CHICAGO — Standing on the rear third-floor deck of the Blacks in Green building on South Cottage Grove Avenue, Naomi Davis and Stacey McIlvaine looked out over the desert that is West Woodlawn.

Davis, an environmental activist, and McIlvaine, an electrician, had come together on a gray fall day to discuss how they could correct a complete absence of electric vehicle chargers in one of Chicago’s preeminent Black neighborhoods.

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