BostonGlobe.com
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9th April 2022
Massachusetts needs at least 750,000 electric vehicles on the road by 2030. We are nowhere close. - The Boston Globe
Back in 2014, state officials calculated the number of gas-burning cars they would need to get off the roads and replace with cleaner, greener options to meet climate goals.
By 2020, they said, electric cars in the state needed to total more than 169,000. By 2025, that number had to rise to 300,000.
But reality has fallen wildly short of the dream.
As of last month, just 51,431 electric passenger vehicles were registered in Massachusetts, less than a quarter of the target. Only about 31,000 of those were fully electric. The remainder, plug-in hybrids, burn gas once they deplete their batteries.
But reality has fallen wildly short of the dream.
As of last month, just 51,431 electric passenger vehicles were registered in Massachusetts, less than a quarter of the target. Only about 31,000 o