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It was just a bit ago that it was announced the City of Philadelphia was considering installing a great number of new public EV chargers. A new development is that the city will collaborate with PositivEnergy, an expanding EV charging network and provider of electric vehicle charging infrastructure and fleet electrification solutions, to have 435 public EV chargers installed.
“Philadelphia’s goal is to make EV charging more accessible, reliable, and equitable for residents in neighborhoods across the city. We are grateful to our partners at PositivEnergy for sharing this vision, and for bringing their expertise to the implementation and deployment of our EV network,” said Anna Kelly, Senior Policy Advisor for EV and Parking in Philadelphia’s Office of Transportation and Infrastructure Systems.
If you have been following public EV charging infrastructure expansion in the US, you know there has been an unexpected growth trend. Republicans in Congress eliminated the federal EV purchasing and leasing incentives, which put a damper on US EV sales, but EV sales have not gone away completely and EV charging infrastructure keeps growing. They have also tried to block the disbursement of federal funds for the installations of more public EV chargers, but their attempts to stop the expansion of public EV chargers funded by the federal government have mostly failed. Consequently, more and more public chargers, including fast chargers, have been installed in various US states. Additionally, there has been a steady expansion of EV chargers at private sector locations such as Walmarts, convenience stores, grocery stores, travel/rest stops, and shopping centers.
