Georgia is encouraging employers in the state to install charging stations that would make it easier for their workers to buy electric cars.

Don Francis, executive director of Clean Cities Georgia, said the Peach State has the second-highest number of electric vehicles of all the states, according to SFGate, with 1,000 more vehicles are driven their each month.

"We won't soon catch California, but we're leaving every other state in the weeds," Francis said recently at the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce seminar, which was hosted for employers.

However, Ben Echols, program manager for electric transportation at Georgia Power, said 80 percent of these cars are located in five metro countries in Atlanta, SFGate reported.

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