Starting in the New year, electric and hybrid car owners will have to pay an additional fee to the state.

Kentucky Editions June Leffler has more.

The annual ownership fee is $120 for electric vehicles.

The state says that any vehicle that charges by plugging it into an electrical source.

The fee is $60 for hybrid vehicles that can't be plugged in, as well as electric motorcycles.

State lawmakers signed off on the new fees this year.

Kentuckians will be notified by mail if they have to pay that fee.

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says these fees support the fund that maintains Kentucky's roads.

Quote, Sharing the roads also means sharing the costs to maintain them.

With the rise in hybrid and EV owners in recent years.

The ownership fee helps ensure their contributions to the road fund match those of the majority of Kentucky drivers who drive a gas or diesel powered vehicle.

The transportation cabinet estimates there are 9000 electric and 60,000 hybrid car owners in Kentucky.

Last year, the state started taxing EV charging stations similarly to gas stations.

While EVs can be charged at home, the state is investing in public charging stations across the Commonwealth.

Kentucky has now awarded $15.4 million to seven private developers to build 24 charging stations.

The state hopes to subsidize another 14 stations.

We spoke to the state's leading transportation cabinet official back in July.

Every interstate, every parkway.

It's 11 interstates and eight parkways are going to have charging stations every 50 miles.

And at every 50 miles there will be stations with four ports.

And these ports then will be accessible by our traveling public.

On this map, the yellow dots pinpoint active charging stations and the blue and red dots are where new stations will go.

The blue circles are areas that could use a station.

For Kentucky Edition, I'm Jane Lefler.

If you need to get your vehicle registered soon, beware of some upcoming closures starting December 29th.

County clerk offices will pause some vehicle related services for 4 to 10 days while the transportation cabinet is updating its database system.