Governor Murphy's been pushing to increase the number of electric vehicles sold in the Garden State and reduce the sale of gas powered cars by 2035.

But some drivers remain hesitant, pointing to the lack of electric charging stations in the state.

While there's a proposal in the works to line the I-95 corridor with enough charging stations to power the next generation of electric vehicles, specifically large commercial trucks that are some of the worst contributors of air pollution on our roads.

Ted Goldberg takes a closer look at the plan.

The trucks in the Ironbound are hard to miss unless you live here.

We're so accustomed to the noise, so the fumes, so the inconvenience of blocked intersections.

Melissa Miles lived here for 20 years and used to help the Ironbound Community Corporation count trucks that intersections to raise awareness for pollution.

In Newark, a city where studies show that one in four children have asthma.

I myself wasn't completely aware until I began to see those health impacts in my own family.

And so to me, it's really important that we transition this dirty technology.

The technology already exists for us to bring trucks to zero emissions, and that's exactly what we should be doing.

She was happy to hear the Biden administration announce billions in federal grants to fight pollution nationwide.

That includes 250 million for a group of four states led by New Jersey to build new EV charging infrastructure along the I-95 corridor, with the hope that electric trucks will become more popular and cut down on pollution.

This charging infrastructure, I believe, is going to help push us into a new era where we are not suffering from the impacts of pollution from trucks.

In this way, in places like this.

This investment is coupling the investment in the vehicles and trucks with also the infrastructure needed along the I-95 corridor to make sure that people can pull over to charge their cars or trucks and then keep moving along I-95 while basically cleaning up our air and improving air quality along the way.

I think this is more than just a good start.

I think this is a leap forward and it's going to help us all up and down the I-95 corridor.

DEP Commissioner Sean LaTourette welcomed the grant, saying it fits in nicely with state goals of expanding electrification and reducing dependance on fossil fuels.

Whether it is by transitioning our school bus fleets to a zero emission future or importantly, the medium and heavy duty vehicles that are now delivering goods to American families all across the landscape.

In lieu of going to stores, this is a transformative investment in the improvement of air quality.

Lisa Garcia is New Jersey's regional administrator with the EPA.

While the grant doesn't specify how many charging stations will be built or where they'll go, she says the Garden State has plenty of places where they could fit.

New Jersey is well-suited because we have the rest stops and we have those areas where the trucks park and be able to really figure out what infrastructure can go along that way so that you could have trucks or other vehicles pull in and charge their their vehicles along the way.

Miles says the quarter billion dollar investment is nice, but there needs to be a lot more than that to cut down on carbon emissions in Newark and elsewhere in New Jersey.

We understand that our local and state government and agencies as well as organizations, are going to have to pull various sources of funding to get at this problem.

250 million for charging infrastructure among several states is really just a drop in the bucket.

Lots of Red says studies need to be done to determine where the charging stations go, and those could take a year or two.

In the meantime, diesel trucks will keep on trucking through New Jersey, continuing to pollute, but also playing a vital role in the state's economy.

In Essex County, I'm Ted Goldberg.

NJ Spotlight News.