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  • Magazine Article
  • 21TOFHP06_10
Published June 01, 2021 by SAE International in United States
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  • English

Three years after Electrify America (EA) opened its first DC fast charging site in Chicopee, Massachusetts, the company currently sits at nearly 600 sites and 2,600 fast chargers throughout the United States. “It's a scale of growth I think never before seen in the industry,” Wayne Killen, EA's director of charging infrastructure planning and business development, aka “employee number four” from late 2016, told attendees of a recent SAE Detroit Section meeting. “The technological complexity of bringing this equipment to market - the logistics, the acquisition of sites, the permitting - everything came together, and we've become the largest open DC fast charging network in the U.S., if not the world.”

A subsidiary of Volkswagen Group of America, EA is investing $2 billion over 10 years in zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) infrastructure, education and access. The Reston, Virginia-based company expects to install or have under development about 800 total charging stations with about 3,500 DC fast chargers by December 2021, expanding to 29 metros and 45 states. Two cross-country routes already were completed in 2020, as were two coastal routes (north-to-south on each coast).