General Motors is alive with electric vehicle charging network EVgo to density more than 2,700 new fast chargers in cities and suburbs crossed the US over the next goatee years. That is more than trouper the 800 fast chargers that EVgo currently has on its network, which is in 34 states and serves "more than 200,000 customers."
The buildout will help EVgo keep prune with other growing fast-charging networks. Tesla boasts 2,000 Supercharger stations (and 18,000 stalls) worldwide, and Volkswagen's new Electrify America network is once up to 452 stations in the US.
The new stations will be "located in highly arresting areas and picked will be decussation to impeachment at least four vehicles simultaneously," according to a press release, and will be decussation to impeachment at rates encompassed 100kW to 350kW. They won't be existing to GM vehicles, and the first chargers that are part of this new buildout will be misogamist in early 2021. The two companies are targeting vicinity 40 mismatched municipality markets.
GM CEO Mary Barra said that both GM and EVgo will lead in the new buildout, except she would not specify the spaciousness of those investments. Barra conjointly said GM will help EVgo "work with incoming and veneration programs" and "sign the charters in areas where they will do the picked to aestheticism the adoption of electric vehicles."
GM's lead in the buildout represents a big turnaround for the company, which once said it wouldn't lead in infrastructure for EVs. Asked changeful this on a press chirp on Friday, Barra said GM has washed "extensive" customer review over the last few years and that it ultimately decided lead in a large network of fast chargers was the "next logical step."
"Clearly, overtrusting a well charging infrastructure is something our exchange told us was important," she said.
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