New Yorkers could face battery-charging station shortage for electric cars

This could come as a shock.

While New York state🃏’s future promises to be filled with electric vehicles, finding a battery-charging station could be a challenge.

In a new survey by consulting firm We❀st Monඣroe Partners, 57% of New Yorkers are forecast to buy an electric vehicle (EV) within the next 24 months.

The same🙈 survey found that 45% of ♋Connecticut respondents planned to snap up an EV within the next two years, and that 49% of participants in New Jersey would do so.

“The orders for our electric vehicles are coming in fro⛎m excited consumers to oไur offices at several locations in New York City — and it’s all good,” one worker at a Tesla sales office in Manhattan, who declined to be named, told The Post.

But consumer excitement might go flat because New York City ranks at the ♎bottom among ci♌ties offering charging stations.

Even as the city has vowed to build more such installations, today it only has 43 charging stations for every million residents. That compares with a concentration of 310 per million in Seattle; 203 in Los Angeles; 199 in DC; and 80 in Chicago, according to H🍌ERE’s Urban Mobility Index.

“EVs are the classic example of overestimating change one year from now bu🌟t underestimating it a decade in the future,” said Riley Adams, a sꩲenior financial analyst for Google in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Fueled by tax credits and incentive programs, better models and the lure of ditching the internal combustion engine for a clean energy alterna☂tive, EV sales are now fully charged statewide. All told, 36,853 electric models were sold in New York State in 2018, a 63% increase in a single year. About 9,000 EVs are registered in New York City.

New York State has 🐻pledged through sales and tax incentives, as well as infrastructure spending, to propel the number of electric vehicles on the road to some 850,000 by 2025 and then 2 million by 2030.