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There are online trolls, haters, and complainers who will try to dismiss Kentucky’s electric vehicle progress by claiming it’s only ten charging stations. However, Kentucky is hanging in there and developing its public charging infrastructure — just slowly. The red states are typically the EV laggards, and there are many reasons for this fact. Chief among them is state governments that do not support electric vehicle adoption at the policy level and sometimes also resist this technology. Kentucky’s governor, though, is open-minded about EVs. “Last fall, Kentucky resecured $17.8 million in previously appropriated funds to build out EV charging stations after the Governor joined a lawsuit challenging the federal government over its unlawful decision to freeze funding for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program.”
He spoke recently about the new EV charging station in his home state. “Team Kentucky knows that EVs are no longer the technology of the future, they’re here now. Families and businesses shouldn’t have to travel our state and worry about where their next charge is coming from, and with our steadily expanding charging network, they won’t have to.”
