With the current stock of EVs in the US, there are then actually 14 times more charging stations per EV than available gas pumps per all autos.Ģ. Doing the math this means that there is a ratio of 16 EVs to 1 charging station. This does not include residential or private charging stations. There are roughly 794,000 EVs in the US as of this writing, and about 48,472 public charging stations (individual connections) by my analysis (as of December 31, 2017). Dividing 270 million autos by 1,200,000 pumps = a ratio of 225 autos per available pump. While I could not find any reliable numbers to support this, I’m using an estimate that an average of 8 pumps are available at any given time for concurrent refueling at a typical modern gas station. Current EV Market Share is Tiny: In the US today there are approximately 270 million automobiles and an estimated 150,000 gas stations. With that said, here are 6 reasons that a straight-up comparison of the number of gas stations in the US to the number of EV charging stations is simply idiotic:ġ. And there is no reason to believe that EV charging stations will not be added to coincide with local market EV adoption rates. Yes, a lot more charging stations are needed to drive adoption, but expecting the same refueling/recharging penetration for EVs as ICE vehicles at this stage of the market is unrealistic. Why should the number of EV charging stations be compared to this much larger stock of vehicles? But under even a little scrutiny the comparison makes little sense.įor starters, EVs comprise only 0.29% of the number of autos on the roads in the US today. It is obvious, however, why reporters and others make the simple comparison, as it is their frame of reference from old to new. But one of the most annoying is when articles in the mainstream US press compare the number of EV charging stations to the number of gas stations. There are a lot of myths, misinformation and misleading concepts when it comes to electric vehicles, frankly on all sides of the conversation.
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