If you’ve read any of my previous blogs, you know that I telecommute. My husband does too, so gas prices don’t really impact our monthly budget much. And, in the past, gas efficiency has not determined our car choices.

However, I am increasingly focused on green living (which I don’t think is very easy, by the way), and I’ve been reading a lot about electric vehicles, or EVs, as they are widely known. When I mentioned EVs to my husband, he wanted to know how accessible and easy it would be to charge EVs away from home. Right now, the answer is: not very.

In 2009, the Department of Energy awarded $2.4 billion in stimulus money to various entities to build electric vehicles and develop a charging station infrastructure. In fact, the cumulative investment in national and regional charging station infrastructure is projected to reach between $5 billion and $10 billion by 2015, according to information from the Electric Drive Transportation Association.