Maryland is making it easier for drivers of electric vehicles to charge up at their homes or on the go with the approval this week of a new pilot program.
The state's Public Service Commission gave the OK to a five-year program that will bring a little over 5,000 new electric vehicle charging stations to Maryland homes, businesses, apartment buildings and public areas. The program is a modified version of a $104.7 million proposal by the state's four largest utilities filed in January 2018 to install 24,000 charging stations. The original proposal estimated residential customers would see an increase on their monthly electric bills of somewhere between 25 cents and 45 cents. The PSC estimates that number will now be somewhere between 12 cents and 22 cents per month with the new plan.
