Texas Dan
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Us Ford EV owners have been so obsessed with gaining access to Superchargers I think we have lost sight of all the new DCFC chargers getting installed. Have you looked at PlugShare lately? The number of DCFC chargers under construction or under permit right now is just phenomenal!
The NEVI money is finally starting to show results but what’s surprising is that groups like Tesla and Flying J/Pilot are going through major DCFC expansions; have the charging service providers finally figured out how to make money charging EVs? I expected many service providers to just sit it out until the NEVI money ran out but that is clearly not happening. The DCFC landscape at the end of 2024 is going to look very much different than what it looks like now.
In Texas alone there hundreds more locations and maybe a thousand more DCFC chargers that should be available by the end of 2024. And we know that at least with NEVI the growth is just going to accelerate over the next five years. PlugShare is already so crowded with DCFC locations that it turns many of locations off so the app doesn’t get too cluttered.
How are we even going to use PlugShare when there are so many DCFC locations that most of them don’t show? Will we go to the old gasoline method of looking for road signs to see which exits have charging stations? I know that’s not something we to worry about right now but we should not lose sight of just how fast our EV world is changing.
The NEVI money is finally starting to show results but what’s surprising is that groups like Tesla and Flying J/Pilot are going through major DCFC expansions; have the charging service providers finally figured out how to make money charging EVs? I expected many service providers to just sit it out until the NEVI money ran out but that is clearly not happening. The DCFC landscape at the end of 2024 is going to look very much different than what it looks like now.
In Texas alone there hundreds more locations and maybe a thousand more DCFC chargers that should be available by the end of 2024. And we know that at least with NEVI the growth is just going to accelerate over the next five years. PlugShare is already so crowded with DCFC locations that it turns many of locations off so the app doesn’t get too cluttered.
How are we even going to use PlugShare when there are so many DCFC locations that most of them don’t show? Will we go to the old gasoline method of looking for road signs to see which exits have charging stations? I know that’s not something we to worry about right now but we should not lose sight of just how fast our EV world is changing.
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