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The good EV charging news keeps coming. In Washington state, funding has been granted to install 754 new public EV chargers: 550 Level 2 charging ports and 204 DC fast chargers. The chargers will be installed by the end or near the end of 2027. There’s even more good news because the new chargers will be installed in underserved areas, meaning places where public chargers are lacking such as rural communities, tribal nations, and multi-family housing.
The fact that 754 public chargers can be added so quickly is an important aspect of the EV charger infrastructure expansion. Of course, there is much more interest in electric vehicles than in EV chargers, so many folks may not be paying attention to the chargers and believe expanding public charging will require a great amount of time. In certain local areas, this belief is not true. Installations of charging stations with 4–16 chargers at shopping centers, near interstate rest stops, at convenience stores, at community centers, and at public libraries doesn’t require huge amounts of time. If 754 new public chargers can be installed in 18 months or less, the rate of installation seems more than sufficient. It should be pointed out there are far more home EV chargers and most EV charging happens at home. So, home chargers should count in the total tally of EV chargers in an area as well. Somehow, this point seems to be overlooked, perhaps due to focusing too much on the “lack” of public EV chargers. You need gas stations for gas cars because you don’t have the ability to fuel up at home.
