Charging stations and infrastructure

Rebuilding our infrastructure is long overdue, with many roads, bridges and rail lines 50+ years old and crumbling due to car and truck traffic. And with President Biden's focus on climate change, it is time to invest in the electric vehicle charging system on our interstate highway system.

All countrywide rest stops, whether they are on main interstates or other less traveled state roads could become charging stations for EVs and also be removed from the main power grid by installing self-sustaining battery banks charged by solar or wind power, similar to what is already being done in Texas and California in partnership with Tesla. The power from the solar and wind would have to be enough to power the rest stop's electrical needs, the lights for the on and off ramps and anywhere from 10 to 50 EV charging stations, depending on the traffic that stops at the rest area.

I'd like to think that we have more time to reduce emissions, but in the near future, nature could create storms more severe than we have ever seen, affecting millions very badly.

Thousands of good paying jobs would be created to implement a plan for self-sustaining rest stops/EV charging stations, creating zero emissions for the rest of the life of those facilities.

President Eisenhower in the 1950s saw the need for the interstate highway system, helping to build the middle class as we know it today. We could be a model for the world for infrastructure and to meet the challenge of climate change if we are smart, which I believe we are. President Biden's administration is the one to get this started, while we still have time to reduce car and truck emissions.

Ray Campbell

Bolingbrook