An aerial view of a parking lot in Kyiv on Nov. 26, 2020. The area marked with green color has several stations to charge electric vehicles. There are 8,530 charging stations for electric cars in Ukraine installed by local companies. Ukrainian startup Go To-U has developed a mobile application that shows drivers a map with charging stations and allows to book the stations and avoid lines.
Nazar Shymone-Davyda, founder of the nonprofit Tesla Club Ukraine, was one of the first Ukrainians who invested in an electric car.
He bought his car from U.S. electric vehicle company Tesla Motors. When he drove it 560 kilometers from Lviv to Kyiv on a single charge, he “realized that it was the future.”