In a significant development for California’s electric vehicle infrastructure, the Golden State now boasts one EV charging station for every five gas stations.
What Happened: As reported earlier by Teslarati, the office of Governor Gavin Newsom announced that California now has 105,000 public or shared private EV chargers. This figure surpasses the one-fifth marker of the approximately 10,423 retail gas stations in the state, according to 2021 data from Statista.
While the state still has a long way to go before EV charging stations outnumber gas refueling stations, California is leading the U.S. in achieving multiple EV goals, especially considering its 2035 ban on new gas car sales.
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