As the saying goes, the future is already here, it’s just not widely distributed yet. And when it comes to electric vehicle adoption, infrastructure, and consumer awareness, Palo Alto takes the cake.

As E&E News reported [pay-walled]:

In this city of 67,000, one of the wealthiest in wealthy Silicon Valley, 30 percent of all new cars purchased last year were electric vehicles, according to data from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). That’s the highest adoption rate in California, which is home to half of the nation’s EVs. Per capita, Palo Alto is America’s electric car capital.

The affluent community is the home of Stanford and birthplace and bedroom of many major tech companies. Partly as a result of its tech-savvy nature and solidarity with local tech entrepreneur and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, its residents are all in on EVs.

Notably, the city has a tremendous build-out of chargers, particularly at workplaces. Many of the major tech companies have hundreds if not thousands of chargepoints on their campuses.

While not every city in America has the wealth to purchase these sometimes-expensive vehicles and to install all those chargers, as prices continue their steep decline for both infrastructure and vehicles, more of the world will start to look like Palo Alto — at least in terms of its zero-emission vehicle deployment.

I’ll discuss other aspects of EV deployment from this E&E article in two subsequent blog posts.