Nanalyze suggests that the US alone needs about 2 million EV charging stations for the 40 or more electric car models that are likely to be on the roads in their multitudes. Of these, around 2 to 3 million are pure battery-electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, according to the International Energy Agency, which forecasts that there may be 300-400 million EVs on the road out of approximately 2 billion vehicles by 2040. It’s estimated that there are more than 1 billion cars on the world’s roads. It’s not meant to be exhaustive, if you’ll pardon the pun, but we hope you find it informative and useful. We’ve decided to concentrate more on commercial or public EV charging points, but we have also included some that are meant for private household use. So it seemed a good idea to collate them in this article, and present them in the form of a list, which is not really ordered in a strict way – just 20 companies that are either developing EV charging technologies or are already supplying them to the market. These past few weeks and months, Robotics and Automation News has reported on numerous new developments in electric vehicle charging technology.
Meanwhile, all the top automakers have been developing electric cars and, unlike in the past, taking them much more seriously because, whereas in the past, the huge question of infrastructure remained unanswered, now, the political, social and technological environment is such that there is already a large number of charging stations all across the US and in many other countries in the world.Īnd there are more on the way. Oil and gas companies are apparently adopting the well-known business motto, “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em”, and look set to integrate electric charging points at fuel stations as standard – it seems only a matter of time.
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