Planning for Electrification: Strategies and Tools for EV Infrastructure Development

Rural Action's Sustainable Energy Solutions Director, Sarah Conley-Ballew will moderate an hour-long presentation for APA Ohio membership focused on current trends in the EV market, federal/state infrastructure funding for EV charging infrastructure, and best practices for planners/developers when integrating clean transportation into their communities' planning strategies. Brandon Jones, Consulting Services Manager at Clean Fuels Ohio and Lily Ballengee from the US DOT will join to discuss some of the tools and resources that municipalities can access for EV infrastructure development in their communities.

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Good content. However, the lack of critical materials needed to produce large-scale numbers of electric vehicles (and the negative environmental impact of mining those materials) has not been logically thought out at the federal level. The banning of internal combustion engine vehicles within the next 1-2 decades is simply not feasible in any logical way. The throughput of rare earth materials needed to produce vehicles in such a large scale would, in itself, take several decades--never mind the actual construction of the vehicles and the needed infrastructure to support such vehicles. Although I own and enjoy my electric vehicle, I recognize these barriers to wider use and integration into the transportation system. I believe this is a good topic for long-range planners to keep in mind, I believe there are many other issues in planning that will impact comprehensive planning in the next 2 decades more than electric vehicle planning (AI, economic stressors, continuing urbanization, etc.).