How Georgia Became the Biggest Electric Vehicle Market in the US
Friday, January 9th, 2015
When Don Francis wanted to buy what he says was the first electric car registered in the state of Georgia, he had to drive to the neighboring state of Tennessee. That was in 2011, when there was zero market for zero-tailpipe-emission vehicles in the so-called Peach State.
Three and a half years later, Francis, executive director of Clean Cities-Georgia, is on his second Nissan Leaf and more than 15,000 other drivers in the state have also gone electric, making Georgia the nation’s leading market for electric cars.
