According to councilman Michael Reinhart, this isn’t the first time the city has looked into EV charging infrastructure, but it’s a better deal than what has been on the table in the past.
“We actually reviewed a proposal, a couple of years ago, for EV charging stations, where it was all about revenue sharing,” Reinhart said. “Long Beach was going to have to pay a large portion of the install and share it with this other company, and the way [city officials] have worked this out, we are not paying for any of it and all of the revenue is going to come back to the city…it’s a vastly, vastly better deal for the city.”