An infusion of state and federal funding, along with public-private partnerships, is accelerating electric-vehicle adoption and charging infrastructure in Oakland and throughout the greater Bay Area.
Central to these efforts is community choice aggregator Ava Community Energy, which has been working to get more public charging infrastructure installed.
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