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Plug-in electric vehicles in Tennessee

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 15, 2024
Entity authorityQ112077855 ↗
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As of 2022, there were about 18,500 electric vehicles in Tennessee.

Registration fee

As of 2022, the state government charges a $100 registration fee for electric vehicles.

Charging stations

As of August 2021, there were 23 DC charging stations in Tennessee.

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, signed into law in November 2021, allocates US$88 million to charging stations in Tennessee.

Manufacturing

Tennessee is widely considered to be a potential national hub for electric vehicle manufacturing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Plug-in electric vehicles in Tennessee” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.