With more than $50 million in federal money coming to Connecticut to build out electric vehicle infrastructure, state officials and those connected to the EV industry hope the Nutmeg State will continue to inch closer to its lofty clean energy transportation goals.
In September, the White House announced Connecticut’s National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program plan had been approved by the U.S. Department of Transportation. The program was created to help fund states’ efforts to build out their electric vehicle charging station networks over the next several years.
On July 1, 2011, barely a hundred electric vehicles were registered in Connecticut.
Eleven years later, there were 25,444, more than twice as many as at the end of 2019. The latest number includes 5,4.