According to estimates from the California Energy Commission (CEC), electric vehicles in California only consume 0.4% of grid demand during the peak hours of 4-9 pm.
Only on sale in the US since April, Ford’s F-150 Lightning BEV is on a pace for sales of at least 15,000 units in 2022. Based on its trailing 3-month average of 2,113, the electric version of the highest-selling vehicle in the world is on an annual pace for a very respectable 25,500 in unit sales.
While charging networks like Electrify America are adding a large number of 350 kW DC fast chargers, based on AFDC data, 58.4% of US corridor
Updating our EVAdoption EV model database with these GM models, as many as 15 BEVs could be Plug and Charge capable by the end of 2022.
With more than 48,000 public Level 2 ports (chargers) deployed in the US, ChargePoint owns a dominant share of the market accounting for 50.2% of total Level 2 chargers, as of June 15, 2022 according to EVAdoption analysis of data from the Alternative Fuels Data Center (AFDC).
Across the 2,193 Electrify America “corridor/market” DC fast chargers located throughout the US (but excluding California sites), 1,527 or 69.6% of the total at the end of 2021 were 150 kW chargers, according to analysis of the April 30, 2022 Electrify America 2021 Report to the US EPA by EVAdoption.
The number of DC fast chargers (ports) grew by more than 4,200, an increase of 24 percent at the end of 2021 versus year-end 2020, according to new EVAdoption, LLC analysis based on Alternative Fuels Data Center (AFDC) data.
As of December 31, 2021, there were only 1,180 public Level 1 chargers listed in the AFDC database, however, a combined 552 (47%) are located at 291 (25%) pay garages/parking lots and 261 (22%) airports.
When looking at the ratio of the total sales from 2010 to 2021 of the Nissan LEAF and Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV (the two CHAdeMO using EVs available in the US) to the number of DC fast chargers in the US, drivers of these CHAdeMO-using EVs actually have the best ratio of vehicles to chargers at 31 EVs to 1 DC fast charger.
The state of New Jersey, which as as of September 31, 2021 had the 6th most cumulative EVs in the US, had the highest ratio of EVs to charger ports at 41.3 to 1. In a distant second place, California with 930,811 cumulative EVs, had a ratio of 27.2 to 1 charger port.
