Electrify America confirmed Thursday, on the sixth anniversary of installing its first fast chargers, that it is planning to expand its fast charging network by 2024.
EA aims to reach 5,000 chargers by the end of the year, including larger charging stations and broader support for Plug & Charge payment technology.
In 2023, it expanded to North Dakota and Hawaii, bringing the total number of chargers to more than 4,000 by year’s end.
According to DOE’s Alternative Fuels Data Center, as of May 2, there are currently 931 Electrify America station locations and 4,182 charging ports; the latter corresponds to what Electrify America considers a charger. The expansion will be about a 20% increase over what is currently available.
Growth in America’s electrification by 2023
Growth in America’s electrification by 2023
The charging network said that, according to independently verified records, it recorded 10 million customer charges in 2023, double the number in 2022. It also more than doubled the amount of energy delivered.
Also Thursday, the company noted that the 2023 expansion includes “upgrading more than 680 underperforming legacy chargers to Electrify America’s next-generation chargers.”
Ford F-150 Lightning at Electrify America
EA may have made that statement in response to claims that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) did not press the network for more charger reliability fixes in cycle 2 , their last and last 5 years. EA was established as part of a 10-year $1.2 billion investment as part of the deal Solve the Volkswagen diesel engine. EA directed $800 million of that to the California portion of the network plus California-specific projects.
The introduction of EA’s chargers has made the federal government aware of the importance of considering reliability and uptime within the scope of building a National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI).
A 2022 study focusing on California’s electric vehicle-savvy Bay Area market found poor reliability and many fast charger not working, with indications that some of them are relatively new EA units. Separately, the network topped a review survey EV charging user experienceReliability aside.
First Electrify America indoor charging station opens in San Francisco
Earlier this year EA opened one Leading urban EV charging station, a new indoor charging model. VW has reportedly tried to sell Electrify America to other companies — including automakers — but so far its only outside investment has been from German supply group Siemens.
Tesla’s Supercharger network is consistently rated the best best for customer satisfactionbut that could soon change with layoffs from Tesla’s entire Supercharger team this week.
