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Gainesville looks to install electric car charging station near downtown
Station would serve two cars at a time
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Gainesville officials are considering installing a charging station in the Main Street parking lot that fronts Jesse Jewell Parkway near the downtown square to both serve electric vehicle drivers and incentivize shoppers in the city’s core. - photo by Erin O. Smith
Growth in the electric car market has long been predicated on a chicken-or-egg problem: Will sales of electric vehicles spur the emergence of charging stations, or are the existence of charging stations necessary to drive sales? It also reads as a catch-22: Sales will likely lag without enough charging stations, and charging stations will likely lag without enough sales. Just about 2 percent of cars on the road today are all-electric or hybrids.