Kentucky has gone beyond most other states and is now implementing two new taxes on electric vehicles at the same time, while keeping gas taxes artificially low compared to the damage gasoline causes.
EVs will have to pay an additional $120 registration fee every year. On top of this, public EV charging stations in Kentucky now have to pay an additional 3 cents per kilowatt hour of electricity distributed, and an additional 3 cents for those chargers that are on state property.
These rates on public charging are notably higher than the roughly 11% tax that Kentucky collects on gasoline (28.7 cents, compared to a current average gas price of $2.78 per gallon in the state).
