Most Americans Won’t Buy an Electric Car Unless They Get the ‘Gas Station Experience’

If the U.S. wants to win the electric car war, it needs to aggressively build out a charging network

Steve LeVine
The Mobilist
Published in
6 min readNov 24, 2020

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A woman’s car being filled up at a petrol station in 1929.
Photo: Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Stringer/Getty Images

If you’re the average American, there is one thing you are generally unworried about: finding gasoline. You live within a mile or two of one or more of…

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Steve LeVine
The Mobilist

Editor at Large, Medium, covering the turbulence all around us, electric vehicles, batteries, social trends. Writing The Mobilist. Ex-Axios, Quartz, WSJ, NYT.