In response to your recent article on the Twin Cities adding more electric vehicle charging stations, I would like to tell a story.

I have a friend who recently came to Maine to visit. She was brought up in the state and was coming home for a much needed visit and needed to rent a car.

When she got to the airport and the rental company, they told her she had a electric vehicle. She did not remember renting an EV. She had waited in line for almost an hour with her little girl. The rental company told her for an extra $500 she could have a gas car. So being very frustrated at this point, she took the manager’s contact information and got a car that would bring her where she needed to go. She was headed from Portland to some very rural parts of Maine.

If we are going to make the transition to EVs, we need a lot more infrastructure to make it work. At this point car rental companies need to maybe carry hybrids until it makes sense to go all electric. The sooner the better, so let’s rally around this issue.

 

Deborah Cayer

Chesterville

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