Electrify America confirmed Thursday, on the sixth anniversary of its first fast-charger installation, that it’s planning a giant expansion of its fast-charging network in 2024.
EA goals to succeed in 5,000 chargers by the top of the yr, including larger charging stations and broader support for Plug & Charge payment tech.
In 2023 it expanded into North Dakota and Hawaii, pushing its total variety of chargers over 4,000 by the top of the yr.
Based on the DOE’s Alternative Fuels Data Center, as of May 2, there are currently 931 Electrify America station locations and 4,182 charge ports; the latter corresponds to what Electrify America considers a charger. The expansion would constitute a roughly 20% increase over what’s currently available.
Electrify America growth in 2023
Electrify America growth in 2023
The charging network says that in response to independently validated records it logged 10 million customer charging sessions in 2023, double the number in 2022. It also greater than doubled the energy allotted.
Also on Thursday the corporate noted that its 2023 expansion included “upgrading greater than 680 underperforming legacy chargers to Electrify America’s next-generation charger.”
Ford F-150 Lightning at Electrify America
EA could have made that statement in response to claims that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) didn’t press the network for more charger-reliability fixes in its latest and final 2.5-year cycle. EA was established as a part of a 10-year, $2 billion investment mandated as a part of the Volkswagen diesel settlement. EA funneled $800 million of that to the California portion of the network plus California-specific projects.
EA’s rollout of chargers has made the federal government aware of the importance of considering reliability and uptime within the scope of the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) buildout.
A 2022 study specializing in California’s EV-savvy Bay Area market found poor reliability and plenty of nonfunctioning fast-chargers, with indications a few of those were relatively recent EA units. Individually, the network topped a survey taking a look at the EV charging user experience, reliability aside.
First Electrify America indoor charging station opens in San Francisco
Earlier this yr EA opened a flagship urban EV charging station, a brand new template for indoor charging. VW has reportedly attempted to buy Electrify America around to other corporations—including automakers—but as of yet its only outside investment is from the German supplier conglomerate Siemens.
Tesla’s Supercharger network has been consistently rated the most effective for customer satisfaction, but which may soon change with this week’s layoffs of Tesla’s entire Supercharger team.
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