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Planning an electric vehicle road trip this summer? Make sure you don't get caught in a charging desert.
It's never been a better time to drive an electric vehicle in the U.S. There are over 72,000 public charging stations across the country, up from about 14,000 just a decade ago. Still, 40% of Americans say concerns about charging time and availability are major reasons they wouldn't buy an EV, according to an AP poll from last year.
Charging deserts are prevalent throughout the central U.S., especially the northern Plains states. However, EV corridors now connect many major cities like Dallas and San Antonio, and Los Angeles and San Francisco. These corridors follow along major highways with ports every 50 miles that can charge EVs in 20 minutes to an hour. With a little more planning, and perhaps rest time for slower charging stations, EV drivers can also complete routes beyond these official corridors, utilizing one of the 61,000 non-DC fast chargers.
Yahoo News used data from the Alternative Fuels Data Center to create the above map showing where EV charging stations, and deserts, are located across the country.
