Attention Charging Pile Exporters! California, United States, Plans To Phase Out Fuel Vehicles By 2035, But There Is Currently A Serious Shortage Of Local Charging Piles!

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) in United States approved plans in August 2022 to stop selling new fuel vehicles by 2035, yet many EV owners are concerned about the lack of charging stations, especially during peak road trips. Many EV drivers say that it is not easy to find a reliable charging station, they often negotiate the queue location, and when charging in other places, they often encounter charging piles that cannot be used.

Emily Hampton, an electric car owner, told the media that because she lives in a rented house, she can't charge the tram, "Even in the early morning, I often encounter a queue of trams waiting to be charged at the charging station, and usually two or three of the four charging stations are in use." Despite the significant drop in monthly gas price payments, she wants public EV charging stations to be more reliable.

Allison Norris Austin, an electric car owner, also noted that "charging stations are terrible. Jennifer Kwon, another car owner, said, "At least at this tram charging station we queue up to charge, but the charging stations elsewhere are a hodgepodge of parking lots, and people sometimes fight over charging." 

California authorities told reporters that California has a high demand for electric vehicle charging, partly because a quarter of the new cars sold in California are zero-emission pure electric vehicles. At present, the number of public and shared private charging piles is just over 105,000. Transportation officials from the California Energy Commission said "we want to build more charging infrastructure."

According to a California Energy Commission report on California's EV charging station infrastructure, "Through modeling and analysis, we need about 1 million EV chargers by 2030 and at least more than 2 million by 2035." "We are also proposing to improve regulations to ensure that at least 97% of public charging stations are functioning, and in the future some of these stations (about 40% of existing systems) will also be required to provide performance reports." 

A spokesperson for Electrify America, one of California's electric vehicle service providers, said that some of the company's charging stations are five years old, and "as more parts age, it's more difficult to replace them, and vandalism like stealing cables is increasing." The spokesperson said they had replaced more than 680 chargers in the past two years and were aiming to increase to more than 800 this year, and they were also looking to install more chargers in more places.

At the same time, the California government expects to use the allocated funds to build 250,000 public and shared charging stations by next year.