electric vehicle infrastructure

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Dictionary meaning

the network of charging equipment, electrical grid connections, digital management systems, and supporting services required to enable widespread adoption of battery electric vehicles; EV infrastructure includes slow home chargers, workplace chargers, public destination chargers, and high-speed direct current fast chargers at motorway services and strategic locations; the uneven distribution of charging infrastructure — concentrated in wealthier urban areas and sparse in rural and lower-income communities — is one of the main equity challenges of the EV transition; grid integration challenges include managing the load from simultaneous charging events, the potential for vehicle-to-grid services that use EV batteries as distributed storage, and the need to ensure that the electricity used for charging comes from low-carbon sources to realise the full climate benefit of electrification