Electric charging firms plugging into public money

By Julie Wernau
Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO — When politicians tout the benefits of public subsidies for electric vehicles, the argument inevitably comes down to two words: Chicken. Egg.

It works like this: Consumers won’t buy electric vehicles without somewhere to charge them. But no one will build charging stations without electric vehicles to use them.

To solve this quandary, local governments and the federal government have pumped millions of dollars of public subsidies into building charging stations. (more…)