King County will use $6M grant to build EV charging ports

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

King County was awarded a $6 million grant from the Washington State Department of Commerce to create more than 400 electric-vehicle charging ports throughout the county. King County Executive Dow Constantine announced the grant on Tuesday, and says this is part of the county’s mission to expand its zero-emission vehicles.

King County applied for this grant in a joint effort with 20 partners around the region – for example, community centers, multifamily housing, retail businesses – places where these charging stations will be installed. The charging grant was made possible through the state’s cap-and-invest program, Climate Commitment Act.

These charging ports will be available to the public in 55 locations, including nine King County charging sites, 13 multifamily residential buildings and 16 other locations like Metro bus bases.

Installation could begin in three months in areas that already have charging stations, and take longer for areas that do not, said Ross Freeman, King County Fleet Electrification and Electric Vehicle Infrastructure planner.

https://crosscut.com/briefs/2024/04/king-county-will-use-6m-grant-build-ev-charging-ports

[dutch777]

1. Be careful who they have managing the ports. I once hooked up to a port at a State of WA facility and the cost was high

I think just the connect fee was $10 and the KWH rate was crazy high. I paid almost as much for that one charge as I normally did for a whole month of charges elsewhere. Important to have access but needs to be affordable. That port I connected to, while at a State facility, was managed by a third party vendor who definitely was "for profit".

[Auggie]

2. We're these private, for-profit entities?