A key legislative committee is expected to act on legislation intended to improve Connecticut’s infrastructure for electric cars, The Associated Press reports.
The bill, up for a vote on Wednesday in the General Assembly’s Transportation Committee, would require updating the state building code to address the need to electrically charge the vehicles.
The bill also requires the state’s Office of Policy and Management to develop a plan to promote electric vehicle use and help encourage the installation of charging stations.
It would open the state’s high-occupancy vehicle lanes on certain highways to single-occupant hybrid and hydrogen fuel-cell powered vehicles.
The initiative would also create a sales tax exemption for hydrogen fuel cell and electric passenger vehicles sold between July 1 and July 1, 2013.
