‘Tremendous amount of demand’ for EV charger funding, WA council says

(The Center Square) – The past year has seen a “tremendous amount of demand’ for electric vehicle charging port funding by state agencies, according to remarks made at a recent Electric Vehicle Coordinating Council meeting.

The increased demand incidentally coincides with a decline in EV sales in 2025 compared to 2024, though stakeholders remain optimistic about long-term prospects driven in part by used EV sales.

The EVCC is a 10-member task force collaborating on ways to increase electric vehicle adoption in the transportation sector, with a ban in 2035 on the registration or sale of new gasoline vehicles in the state. Among the many challenges the government-driven environmental goal has faced are high EV prices, a lack of charging ports, and charging port vandalism and theft that in some regions can cause significant disruption to EV use.

EV title transactions in the state reached a quarter of all transactions in October 2025, but fell to just 10.2% in December. EV sales...