- Level 1 is 110v and fully charges your EV in a day or two (if battery is very low)
- Level 2 is 220v and fully charges an EV overnight.
- Level 3 is a DC fast charger and fully charges in tens of minutes to a couple of hours, depending on the charging rate of the charger and the vehicle.
Consequently, the following estimates do not make much sense to many of us:
The group expects that there will need to be about 700,000 Level 2 and 70,000 Level 3 chargers deployed, including both public and restricted-use facilities.
So, in order to match the charging needs of all those EVs, the United States will need to quadruple the number of EV chargers between 2022 and 2025 and grow more than eight-fold by 2030, even taking home charging into account, according to the analysts.
By 2027, the analysts expect that there will be a need for about 1.2 million Level 2 chargers and 109,000 Level 3 chargers deployed nationally.
And looking to 2030, with the assumption that there will be 28.3 million EVs on US roads, a total of around 2.13 million Level 2 and 172,000 Level 3 public chargers will be required, in addition to home EV chargers.
Source: Here’s how many EV chargers the US has – and how many it needs
Agree with this – L2 chargers along highways are pointless. L2 at overnight stay hotels is useful.
Electrek’s Take
What the US really needs is an increase in the density of DC fast chargers, and the strategic location of said DC fast chargers in convenient, well-lit places.
It’s not useful to have hundreds of Level 2 chargers along an interstate. People who are road tripping need convenient fast chargers right off the road.
