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For investors with hardy constitutions, the recent plunge in SPAC prices has opened opportunities in a fast-growing sector: electric-vehicle charging companies.

This session featured decision makers who are responding to the call to build resilient, thriving, communities and nations. The eyes of the world are on them. How do they envision a world that meets its sustainability goals in the present and the future? What can they accomplish individually and what goals will require a united front.

Investors, car companies and even the federal government have placed high priorities on EVs. But there’s one area that has been overlooked: infrastructure.

President Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan includes a vision to rev up the American market for electric cars.

WASHINGTON—President Biden’s ambitious plan to fund a network of electric vehicle charging stations could be a shot-in-the-arm for the EV industry, but it leaves a myriad of legal, technical and budgetary problems still to be addressed.

President Joe Biden is prioritizing a national EV charging network under his $2 trillion infrastructure bill, promising to have at least 500,000 of the devices installed across the U.S. by 2030.

Cathy Zoi, chief executive, said EVgo was more than a commodity supplier, operating chargers that were reliable and located at shopping centres and supermarkets. “It’s more than just being a pass-through of electricity: it’s actually a sophisticated network of fast chargers across the country that we keep running at 98 per cent uptime,” she said.

With plans to eliminate the country's carbon footprint by 2050, Joe Biden could easily be the greenest president in American history. But achieving such a flashy goal will involve plenty of work in much more mundane areas, like having enough spots to charge a rapidly growing fleet of electric vehicles.