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The US Southeast’s first NEVI EV charging station just broke ground
Electrek ^ | Michelle Lewis | Feb 21 2024 - 1:31 pm PT

Posted on 02/21/2024 5:12:27 PM PST by Red Badger

Southeast NEVI charging station Photo: ABB E-mobility

The first DC fast charging station in the US Southeast built with federal funds from the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Program just broke ground.

The Southeast’s first NEVI-funded and compliant charging station will be at Circle K in Richmond, Kentucky, along the Interstate 75 corridor. It will feature 180 kW ABB E-mobility Terra 184 chargers that are Build America, Buy America (BABA) compliant and meet the NEVI technical minimum standards. The chargers will initially be installed with CCS 1 connectors, and NACS connectors will be added later this year.

Kentucky, a big EV battery production state, has so far chosen seven developers to install chargers at 24 sites. It’s seeking proposals to install up to 16 additional NEVI-funded EV charging stations. It’s the first phase of the state’s EV charging program, which aims to add up to 40 DC fast charging stations by 2025 along Kentucky’s interstates and parkways.

Kentucky will receive nearly $70 million from the federal NEVI Program established through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

NEVI Formula program funding requires EV charging stations to be available every 50 miles and within one travel mile of the Alternative Fuel Corridor. EV charging stations must include at least four ports with connectors capable of simultaneously charging four EVs at 150 kilowatts (kW) each, with a total station power capacity of 600 kW or more.

The charging stations must have 24-hour public accessibility and provide such amenities as restrooms, food and beverage, and shelter.

Since Governor Andy Beshear (D-KY, pictured) took office in 2019, Kentucky has seen EV-related announcements that account for $11.6 billion in planned investments and more than 10,125 new full-time jobs created.


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1 posted on 02/21/2024 5:12:27 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

They’ve got to hurry and finish by October for a photo op.


2 posted on 02/21/2024 5:21:13 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Red Badger

“...and meet the NEVI technical minimum standards.”

Meaning they had to put a US Nameplate on their Chinese Import.


3 posted on 02/21/2024 5:21:34 PM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: TornadoAlley3

It’s Kentucky. How long before somebody cuts the cables for the copper?................


4 posted on 02/21/2024 5:22:17 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

“”Kentucky, a big EV battery production state””

Several USA car companies, especially Ford, are ‘scaling back’ investment in EV battery production. No matter how much the Hussein/Biden Regime steals from taxpayers to give out, if people do not want to purchase them, no amount of battery production will matter.

Yes, I know the long-term goal is to get all of us out of any car, right now there are tens of thousands of EVs just sitting on the car lots.

Also, will there be any warning signs on the chargers, warnings that fast charging damages the life of the battery. Will there be any instructions to only charge to 80%, and to not go below a 20% charge level? (this 80/20 is what battery manufacturers [large and small] recommend to sustain the life/health of the battery).


5 posted on 02/21/2024 5:23:03 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: Red Badger

The faster the charge, the more they will overheat and bulge and go boom with flames and all.


6 posted on 02/21/2024 5:23:26 PM PST by George from New England
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To: Red Badger

Some customers used the convenience store inside (not a “bodega”-—this is the United States). They bought and ate sushi, sandwiches and potato salad——all outdated a month earlier.

Customer base shrank as so few lived to return.


7 posted on 02/21/2024 5:23:58 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

The local residents will see their lights dim for the half-hour charge cycle.


8 posted on 02/21/2024 5:24:38 PM PST by George from New England
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To: Red Badger

No government money should be used. It should be free market.


9 posted on 02/21/2024 5:26:32 PM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

RE: warning signs with words and unhappy advice about not charging the way customers want to charge (100% fast).

How many Americans can read? How many say “I will do what I want.”

130 million Americans read below sixth-grade level.
21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024.
54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level).
In California 23.1% of adults lack “basic prose literacy skills.”


10 posted on 02/21/2024 5:29:39 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: Red Badger

Next door in Tennessee; they have decided to add an addiitonal ‘fee’ of $100 to register a hybrid vehicle, and $200 to register an electric vehicle. Their excuse? They need to make up the loss in gas taxes somewhere...LOLOL! (Normal folks will continue to pay $29 to registered gas-driven vehicles.)


11 posted on 02/21/2024 5:31:05 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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To: who knows what evil?

It’s only fair.

The EVs are waaaay heavier and will destroy roads quicker.

By not paying gasoline taxes they are skipping out on their roadwork maintenance obligations.

Is this a one-time charge or is it annual with plate renewal?......................


12 posted on 02/21/2024 5:37:22 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

“Well, isn’t the special!”
My plan is to invest in tow trucks, ICE engines, rigged for towing Evs that are in need of a charge. Also equipped with battery fire suppressing chemicals.
Later, I will add food trucks that have hot dogs, pop corn and other goodies to enjoy with a roaring fire!
The cost of services will make the “feel good” folks wish that they had nothing to do with EV Cars.


13 posted on 02/21/2024 5:43:58 PM PST by BatGuano (2020 = Stolen Election. Believe it! Molon Labe.)
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To: Red Badger

Annual, and it gets worse...the ‘fee’ rises to an additional $275 (from $200) for electric vehicles by 2028.


14 posted on 02/21/2024 5:46:59 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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To: Red Badger

On the fringes of the Southeast. Kentucky has a SEC school, so I guess that’s enough. But it was the birth state of Abraham Lincoln.


15 posted on 02/21/2024 5:47:51 PM PST by PAR35
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To: who knows what evil?

Texas is $400 the first two years and $200 each year thereafter for an electric.

It should be higher to cover the costs of the new generating plants that are needed. Or ban charging of the cars when the temperature is over 100 or under 20.


16 posted on 02/21/2024 5:51:09 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Red Badger

No need to go after copper cables when the crooks can just rob the customers of cash, credit cards and the like...


17 posted on 02/21/2024 5:53:40 PM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: Red Badger

Are they going allow the use of KY mined coal to generate the electricity or are they going to try and use Chinese solar panels?


18 posted on 02/21/2024 5:56:13 PM PST by redangus ( )
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To: Red Badger

The headline should have been it “Broke wind..” which would have been more descriptive.


19 posted on 02/21/2024 6:21:06 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: Red Badger


20 posted on 02/21/2024 6:51:07 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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