> in Wisconsin I have never seen an electrical charging station As per the article, in Wisconsin any company that did would be regulated as a utility company;

> in Wisconsin I have never seen an electrical charging station As per the article, in Wisconsin any company that did would be regulated as a utility company; the law makes exemptions so non-utilities can set them up. > Would companies really refuse to build stations without this stipulation? The funds that are freed up are federal funds. No idea if that's a result of the above deregulation, or if those funds can't be used directly by municipalities. Either way, as a business owner I'd be hard pressed to invest in putting chargers in my parking lot if the city came along and put in a bunch for street level parking.