Charged up, but not connected: the bottlenecks in electric mobility

EV transition depends on charging infrastructure; rollout slower than ambitions.

Politicians have rarely been shy about their electric dreams. From Washington to Brussels, targets for zero-emission vehicles multiply by the year. Carmakers, too, trumpet all-electric futures. Yet beneath the glossy projections and ribbon-cuttings lies a simpler truth: the electric-vehicle transition will move only as fast as the plugs in the ground. And in many places, those plugs are arriving more slowly —and less evenly — than ambition demands.