David Jankowsky is among those trying to remove a major obstacle to consumer demand for electric vehicles: a lack of charging stations across rural America.
Mr. Jankowsky is chief executive of Francis Energy, a Tulsa, Okla.-based startup that has been installing fast chargers in remote areas of the Great Plains, from tribal reservations to lonely sections of Route 66. Some are in areas with hardly any electric cars on the road and receive little use.
