“[Fossil fuel companies] are going to build oil pipelines, and we’re going to build the future as they build the past.” says DFLEC ally Bob Blake, who is executive director of Native Sun.

The Standing Rock Indian Reservation and the Red Lake Band of Chippewa are hoping to share a $6.7 million infrastructure grant to purchase electric vehicles and install 120 charging stations to link together tribal lands with each other and regional destinations.  Energy News Network has the story. 

Meanwhile, electric vehicle advocates are trying to get  more charging stations in the Midwest, and investors are demanding motor companies do better at producing electric vehicles, speaking with their feet, with electric vehicle company Lordstown Motors’s shares falling some 14% on Friday after reporting production delays.  Everybody wants more electric vehicles, and soon!

But can the grid handle all these new electric vehicles? Yes, of course.  American Electric Power CEO Nick Akin tells us that their grid is prepared “right now” for the expected wave of electric vehicle adoption.