Electric vehicles drive change.

Main Streets across America are casualties to the sterile big box chains and strip malls which gobbled up her precious family farms. While such developments answered the call of urban sprawl they subsequently cut the lines that connected communities to their local businesses. The services provided by these trades’ women, men, artisans, and professionals slowly too have exited Main Street over the past few generations. As a result we’ve watched gorgeous and historic architectural Americana disappear along side it’s people.

The industrial revolution and the automobile meant proximity didn’t have to be the deciding factor as to where we live, work, and shop. We no longer needed the convenience of Main Street, rather many chose instead the affordability that only

cheap labor from imported goods can provide. The bi- product of this is that local dollars were no longer put back into the local economy which only exacerbated the need to for cheap goods. Preach, choir.

A thriving Main Street in 2o23 is one that rises to challenges of brick-and-mortar commerce in the “Experience Age” with creative financial incentives for local makers, professionals and artists in order for them to re-occupy while staying the normal patters of rising rents from this same gentrification.

Main Street can provide goods and services for its constituents at the same time inspiring sustainable tourism with exciting destination businesses and experiences.

I’ve personally clocked 20,000+ miles of EV road trippin’ since 2017. Sadly, the charging was not where I wanted to be - chain hotels, strip malls and truck stops. My next charge is to change that!

The automobile may have killed Main Street, why not let her rebuild it. Park, charge, walk.