Kevin Drum has a put up up concerning the current and way forward for EV charging stalls within the US. As of 2023, the quantity was 184,000, with public charging stalls outnumbering Tesla stalls 6:1. Is that quite a bit or a bit of?
Nicely, numerous folks say that they’re holding off shopping for EVs due to the vary, which remains to be lower than most ICE vehicles. One option to mitigate that concern is to have extra charging stalls than fuel station nozzles*.
So what number of gasoline gasoline nozzles are there? In accordance with xMap, there are ca. 196,600 retail fuel station areas within the US. In the event you assume every station has on common eight gasoline nozzles, that’s ca. 1,570,000 fuel fueling ports**. So there are in all probability about an order of magnitude *extra* ICE fueling nozzles than there are EV charging stations. Even with the expansion in public stalls funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Regulation, it can possible take near a decade for EV charging stalls to catch as much as fuel fueling stalls.
* setting apart the difficulty that it takes for much longer to recharge an EV than it does to fill an empty fuel tank
** in all probability ought to add some variety of diesel gasoline ports, however I’m not going to hazard a guess as to what number of of these there are.
