California installed 24,202 electric vehicle chargers in the first half of 2024, bringing the total to more than 150,000.
California has surpassed 150,000 public and shared private chargers installed statewide, including 137,648 “Level 2” chargers and 14,708 fast chargers. In addition to the public network, the state estimates there are more than 500,000 private home chargers installed across the state.
Of the 48,000 chargers added to the dataset since the end of 2023, 24,202 new chargers were installed in the first half of 2024. The remaining 23,142 chargers will be installed and identified through new data sources before 2024, according to the California Energy Commission (CEC). ).
This announcement by Governor Gavin Newsom comes weeks after California posted its second-highest market share ever in zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) sales.
“When it comes to zero-emission vehicle infrastructure, California has no equal,” Newsom said. “The state is fully committed to clean transport and is making unprecedented investments to boost our transition. We are building a bigger, better charging network – and faster.”
The CEC has approved more than $1 billion in funding this year for electric vehicle charging and hydrogen fueling projects for cars, trucks and buses, including $390 million for electric school bus charging. The state is also expected to receive more than $380 million from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to build chargers.
As EV drivers know, charger reliability and uptime are extremely important, and the CEC reports that it will soon establish national regulations for electric vehicle charging reliability that will follow government-funded chargers. It is also working with the University of California, Davis, on a field-testing program that will catalog the reliability of chargers.
California has a rule, established by Newsom in 2020, that requires all new car sales to be zero-emission by 2035. As a result, more than a quarter of all new cars sold in the second quarter of 2024 will be ZEVs, with an average of 1,300 sales per day. CEC reports that a total of 1,996,931 ZEVs have been sold to date, and the state now boasts that more than a third of all ZEVs sold in the United States are sold in California.
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