There are more than 2.5 times as many publicly available electric vehicle chargers today as there were three years ago, slightly outpacing the growth of EVs on the roads during that time.
But the rollout has been far from even, reports Route Fifty.
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California leads the country in the sheer number of public chargers added. With nearly 9,000 coming on line in the last three years, California nearly tripled the number of EV chargers installed in New York, which saw the second most added. Florida, Massachusetts, Texas, Washington, Colorado, Maryland, Ohio, and Michigan rounded out the top 10, according to industry data from HERE Technologies, a location data platform, using its ChargePoint API.
The top 10 states accounted for more than half of the new chargers installed in the last three years. Read the rest of the article, including which states bring up the rear.
Source: Route Fifty
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Frank Raczon has covered and influenced the equipment industry for 35 years, including 15 years as senior editor of Construction Equipment, and marketing, advertising, and public relations work with the industry's top manufacturers. In addition to authoring "Caterpillar: Modern Earthmoving Marvels" (Motorbooks, 2015), he has won numerous awards in his career, highlighted by nods from the Construction Writers Association, the Association of Equipment Manufacturers, the Business Marketing Association, and BtoB magazine. Raczon has also won a number of awards from publishing peer groups such as ASBPE and TABPI.