Fall 2024 Speaker Series: Connected Communities
Electrifying Transportation in Vermont with Dave Roberts

Plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) can drastically reduce carbon and other harmful emissions and are a key strategy for achieving Vermont’s greenhouse gas emission reduction requirements. EV adoption is growing rapidly in Vermont, but purchase prices, charging infrastructure, and vehicle availability are challenges to this progress. This session will review the basics of EVs and how Vermont is addressing barriers through outreach, incentive offers, charging investments, and regulations to advance their use.
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David Roberts
Managing Consultant and Drive Electric Coordinator, VEIC

David Roberts is a Managing Consultant at VEIC with over 25 years of transportation sustainability experience. He has coordinated the Drive Electric Vermont program over the past 12 years - a public-private partnership working to increase electrified transportation in Vermont. He supports programs to increase dealer awareness and consumer sales of plug-in vehicles and has worked with utilities, government agencies and other organizations to increase availability of charging infrastructure across the state. He’s on his fifth EV and loves quiet explorations of Vermont back roads with his wife and their dog Juniper.