Boston has more than 900 EV chargers, and most are concentrated downtown. So neighborhoods like Mattapan, Hyde Park, Roslindale and parts of Dorchester could be considered charging deserts.
Nicole Mushero bought her Chevy Bolt a year-and-a-half ago to do her small part to tackle climate change. But she lives in a condo in Jamaica Plain without an easy way to install a charger.
As of September 2022, the city has 924 chargers, 95% of which are Level 2. But across the city, the distribution among neighborhoods has not been even. Most of the city’s 182 charging locations are in Central Boston, Seaport, Fenway and Beacon Hill. Loie Hayes uses her phone to connect with a charging station in Boston. She doesn't have a driveway or garage and relies on public chargers in Mission Hill.
“We are looking at the total market potential when considering a charger installation, including the EV adoption rate in the community,” said Mike Battaglia, chief revenue officer at Blink, one of the companies that has installed chargers in Boston.also went to areas with high traffic and more early EV adopters: More than $430,000 was used to fund 62 charging locations in Boston, mostly downtown and in the Seaport.
Currently, the city has installed 58 Level 2 chargers distributed across 13 of its public parking lots, with plans to develop six more locations in 2023. All of them are located in the neighborhoods where the BU analysis found fewer chargers: Roxbury, Brighton, Allston, Jamaica Plain, East Boston, Roslindale, Dorchester, South Boston, Hyde Park, West Roxbury and Mattapan.
He and Oliver Sellers-Garcia, Boston’s Green New Deal secretary, pointed out that, while most of the federal
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