EV Charging Infrastructure Rollout Crawls as Only 7 of Half a Million Planned Stations Built So Far

Only 7 EV charging stations have been built so far out of a planned 500,000 by 2030. This is causing concern about meeting the timeline.

$7.5 billion was allocated by Congress to build EV charging stations, but after 2 years only 7 stations across 4 states are operational.

There have been delays due to states lacking experience deploying EV chargers and needing to develop plans, solicit bids, and award contracts before building stations.

The new chargers have strict requirements like 97% uptime and being within 1 mile of highways, which slows the rollout but should result in higher quality.

Private companies are also working on charging stations, but the public program would increase fast charging capacity by 50% which is important for reducing range anxiety.