DETROIT (AP) – When the car revolution comes, will there be enough places to plug in?
There are now 26,000 vehicle charging stations open to the public in the United States, with more than 84,000 plugs.
But the country, and the world, will want thousands more if drivers adopt battery-powered vehicles. And because they are asked to invest before this call arrives, automakers and collecting corporations are suffering to increase numbers.
Electric cars currently account for only about 1.3% of total new vehicle sales in the United States, according to the car Edmunds.com. Electricity is much higher in other countries, accounting for 2.6% of global sales of new vehicles last year, according to the International Energy Agency.
However, with more than 40 all-electric cars in the U.S. market. Or in the next three years, car and cargo executives say the call is on the way.
“Automakers are increasingly committed to making electric vehicles,” said Mike Moran, spokesman for Electrify America, a $2 billion structured charging station network to solve Volkswagen’s diesel emissions fraud scandal. “Last year, automakers announced a combined $225 billion investment in electrification.”
On Friday, General Motors and CORPORATE EVGo announced plans to charge around 700 fast charging stations, tripling the number on the EVGo network over the next five years. They may not say how much they’re going to invest, but they plan to charge 2,700 fast-charging points.
They will do so in 40 unspecified metropolitan areas, adding California, Texas, Florida and Illinois. And they’ll build the stations near where other people go shopping, such as grocery stores or pharmacies. Normally, a quick tester can requalify a battery in 30 to 40 minutes, so the concept is to grade while others are shopping.
“We’ve done extensive customer studies to perceive what’s for the customer,” said Mary Barra, GM’s ceo. “Clearly, our customers have told us it’s having a physically powerful cargo infrastructure.”
Detroit-based GM said it is moving away from the internal combustion engine for a long-term all-electric and plans to deploy 20 new electric cars internationally by 2023. Ford, Crosstown’s rival, has an all-electric SUV lasting 480 kilometers. . ) of diversity and supplies an all-electric edition of the F-150 truck, the best-selling vehicle in the country.
Fast charging stations have a higher kilowatt capacity than home chargers, and are vital to temporarily recharge the batteries of newer electric cars that can travel three hundred miles or more on a single charge. But the maximum of the country’s public cargo network is much slower. The U.S. Department of Energy reports that there are 3884 public fast charging stations in the country with 14858 outlets.
As more and more electric cars are sold, faster evaluators will be needed, especially for others living in apartment buildings and qualifying at home, said Cathy Zoi, EVGo’s executive director.
The 2,700 new fast-charging outlets will begin to become available early next year. GM and EVGo say they will invest in retail stores, but many will be built on investment from utilities, governments and public-private partnerships.
More public charging stations will allow GM and other automakers to compete more with Tesla, which is now the world leader in electric vehicle sales and has its own personal network of fast charging stations. Tesla has a network of 1,971 charging stations with 17,467 outlets worldwide. An American number not available.
Electrify America now has more than 450 charging stations in the United States with more than 2,000 fast charging, Array Moran said. Expect to have 800 stations and around 3500 by the end of next year.
The guide’s analyst, Sam Abuelsamid, said the number of chargers was developing and deserved to be enough to meet demand as more and more electric cars are sold. “A big challenge now is that each network has its own payment system, so owners want multiple accounts to access all the chargers,” he said. But Ford, GM and others look to group all networks into one account.
“As more and more cars enter the market they charge faster and have a longer reach, especially with aggregation, allowing roaming, that’s where I think it will start to make a difference,” he said.