A charging cord for an electric vehicle is seen strung across a public sidewalk in San Francisco. EV adoption is finally ramping up in the US. But what the fever line doesn’t show is that it’s lumpy. A large share of battery-powered cars are being bought by households that already own an EV, or two or three for that matter. — AP
Keller Strother got his first Tesla, a Roadster, in 2011. He still has it, though his garage now includes two more Teslas and a vintage Porsche 911 that recently had its gas-burning guts swapped out for a battery and electric motors.
In a warming world, where roughly one quarter of Americans are keen to buy an electric vehicle, Strother has four of them.
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