When the Iran attack and rising gas prices rekindled interest in electric vehicles, US charging networks were still struggling to keep up with demand. According to a Bloomberg News study of federal statistics, 605 public, high-speed EV fuelling stations were operational in the first quarter, a 34% increase over the same period last year. The country now has over 13,500 facilities to swiftly add electrons to a car or truck, up 25% from a year ago.
The charging boom proved especially beneficial in March, when the Iran War roiled oil markets, gas prices skyrocketed, and Americans began hunting for EVs in droves. Tesla Inc. sales increased in the first quarter compared to the same period last year, following months of decline. (Although they came in below analysts’ predictions.
It’s clearly been a very anti-EV situation at the federal level,” said Ingrid Malmgren, senior policy director at Plug In America, an EV advocacy group, alluding to the Trump administration’s elimination of subsidies and clean air rules. “But what we’ve seen continuously is that people love their cars, and once they start driving an EV, nobody wants to go back.
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