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How electric cars could make America's crumbling roads even worse

  • Written by Jay L. Zagorsky, Senior lecturer, Boston University

U.S. roads and bridges are in abysmal shape – and that was before the recent winter storms made things even worse.

In fact, the government rates over one-quarter of all urban interstates as in fair or poor condition and one-third of U.S. bridges need repair.

To fix the potholes and crumbling roads, federal, state and local governments rely on...

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