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San Francisco’s transportation sector generates nearly half of the city’s greenhouse gas emissions, the vast majority derived from private cars and trucks. These emissions drive a rapidly changing climate system which is disrupting and damaging critical infrastructure, health, and property and contribute to poor air quality, disproportionately affecting communities of color, low-income communities, seniors, and people with disabilities.  

In order to achieve San Francisco’s 2040 net-zero emission goals, the city will need to invest in transit, walking and bicycling to rapidly reduce emissions as well as expand access to charging stations. The Curbside Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Feasibility Study is part of the City’s efforts to meet growing demand for EVs by facilitating the new installation of approximately 100 curbside charges as a part of meeting the need for about 1,760 public chargers by 2030 across San Francisco. Already mostly constructed, the completed network will be built on both public and private property.   

The Study’s findings and recommendations should be used to guide the strategic deployment of public EV charging stations at the curb in neighborhoods across San Francisco.  Curbside charging provides San Franciscans who live in multifamily homes or don’t have their own garage additional options to go electric, helping to provide more equitable access in the city.