According to the consultancy S&P Global Mobility, the number of electric vehicle charging stations in the US must quadruple by 2025 to meet the demand for electric vehicle sales.
Many EV owners power their vehicles via home chargers, but a robust public charging network will be necessary as automakers transition to selling primarily EVs in the US.
As S&P Global Mobility forecasts, electric vehicles account for less than 1 percent of the 281 million vehicles in operation today and accounted for about 5 percent of new vehicle registrations from January through October 2022, but that share will soon expand. .
According to a report by Stephanie Brinley, associate director of Auto Intelligence at S&P Global Mobility, the EV market share for new vehicles will likely reach 40 percent by 2030, or 28.3 million vehicles.
“If it takes a decade to implement a strong system, I don’t think it’s crazy,” Brinley told Automotive News. “It’s a big enough problem with enough players that it’s reasonable to take time.”
According to S&P Global Mobility estimates, the United States has about 126,500 Level 2 and 20,431 Level 3 public charging stations.
Those estimates exclude 16,822 Tesla Superchargers and Tesla Destination Chargers.
A surge in chargers has already begun, and is likely to gain momentum. In 2022 alone, the number of chargers has grown more than the previous three years combined.
In 2022 around 54,000 level 2 and 10,000 level 3 chargers will be added
A Level 1 charger plugs into a standard wall outlet. With a charging speed of 20 hours or more, it’s the slowest, most basic EV charger, according to the EVgo charging network. A Level 2 charger powers an EV in five to six hours.
Level 2 chargers are often installed at home, work, or public shopping malls, where vehicles are parked for a significant amount of time, EVgo says.
Level 3 chargers require a much larger grid connection and take 15-20 minutes to recharge most of an electric vehicle’s charge.
Americans could be driving nearly 8 million electric vehicles by 2025, according to the report. That’s a considerable leap from the 1.9 million electric vehicles on the road today.
President Joe Biden set a goal last year to finance the installation of 500,000 charging stations across the country by 2030.
Those 500,000 are just one part of a broad push to expand infrastructure. S&P Global Mobility expects around 700,000 Level 2 and 70,000 Level 3 chargers will be needed to support the EV fleet by 2025.
Two years later, the company projects that 1.2 million Level 2 chargers and 109,000 Level 3 chargers will be needed.
By 2030, S&P Global Mobility expects the US to need 2.13 million Level 2 and 172,000 Level 3 public chargers, more than eight times the number of charging stations available today.
Fuente: S&P Global Mobility