Developing a strong, reliable network of charging stations across the United States is one of the most important steps to encourage adoption of electric cars. As of Nov. 25, 2025, there are over 82,904 publicly accessible electric vehicle charging stations with Level 2 or DC Fast chargers in the U.S., collectively containing more than 228,000 individual ports as of September, 2025, an increase of 19% since 2024. They are still far outnumbered by the 150,000 gas stations in the country. Currently, California has 29% more than any other state, followed by Texas, New York and Florida. It’s no surprise that the four top states by GDP have the highest number of EV chargers, and California’s significant lead is also unsurprising considering its ambition to completely phase out the sale of new gas vehicles by 2035. A number of states are following their lead, including Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Washington.
ARE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF CHARGERS AVAILABLE?
- Level 1: 120 -volt. Every EV or plug-in hybrid can be charged by plugging in their charging equipment to a regular wall outlet. You will get between 3-5 miles of range per hour. Very commonly used at home.
- Level 2: 208-volt to 240-volt. This charging equipment can be installed anywhere and will give you an average of 32 miles of range per hour. This charger is commonly used anywhere there are several hours available to fully charge.
- Level 3: 400-volt to 900-volt otherwise known as fast chargers to the non-Tesla world and superchargers to Tesla owners. You will get between 3-20 miles of range per minute. Very few residential locations have the high-voltage supply that is required.
- More detailed information on charging levels here.
DO ALL EVs HAVE THE SAME CONNECTOR?
- Yes, generally speaking for Level One and Level Two charging.
- No, when it comes to Level Three. With the exception of Tesla which has its own proprietary North American Charging Standard (NACS), nearly every other automaker has adopted the CCS standard. This is changing, as many major car makers have shifted in 2024 and 2025 to the NACS system. Additionally, at the end of July, 2023, seven automakers (GM, BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes Benz & Stellantis) announced a joint venture to install more than 30,000 electric vehicle charge points across America using both the NACS and the CCS standard. These charging stations will be accessible to all EV customers, regardless of brand. This charging network is to be powered solely through renewable energy sources.
- Other EV connector information can be found
CAN ALL EVs BE CHARGED AT ALL CHARGING STATIONS?
- Tesla and other automakers with the Tesla adaptor can be charged at Tesla superchargers.
- All EVs can be charged at universal charging stations.
- As of spring, 2024 when Ford, GM, Rivian, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo & Polestar decided to have adapters for the Tesla superchargers, their cars with adapters became able to charge at Tesla superchargers. As of 2025, all of their new vehicles were manufactured with charging ports that match the ones used in Tesla vehicles using the NACS standard.
- Electrify America, the second largest EV fast-charging network (with 800 fast charging stations and more than 3,600 plugs nationwide) concluded in June 2023 that it will add Tesla’s connector to its charging stations by 2025, another step toward adopting Tesla’s plug as the industry standard.
- Additionally, at the end of July, 2023, seven automakers (GM, BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes Benz & Stellantis) announced a joint venture to install more than 30,000 electric vehicle charge points across America using both the NACS and the CCS standard. These charging stations will be accessible to all EV customers, regardless of brand. This charging network is to be powered solely through renewable energy sources.
HOW CAN YOU FIND CHARGERS WHEN ON A ROAD TRIP?
- Check these interactive maps before you travel, powered by Alternative Fuels Data Center or EV hype. EV hype provides detailed information on EV charging stations across the U.S. and Canada, including real-time updates to help you plan your travels efficiently.
- Travel booking sites such as com have an EV charger filter (but whether Tesla or Universal isn’t clear) under Amenities. Airbnb Inc. has an EV charging filter as well, and last year said over 850,000 properties included it as an amenity. Searches using their EV charger filter grew more than 80 percent from 2022 to 2023. Tesla owners can search the company’s website for “destination charging” stations at hotels across North America.
WHAT IS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DOING?
2022: By September, 2022, the Biden administration had already given early approval to 35 states’ EV infrastructure plans, granting them access to $900 million in funding as part of the $5 billion National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program set to be distributed over the following five years, an initiative to create a coast-to-coast network of electric vehicle chargers.
2023: In February, 2023 the Biden Administration announced a full list of their new standards and major progress in the Made-in-America National Network of EV chargers plan. As part of the ambition is to have 500,000 chargers by 2030 (up from the 130,000 publicly available currently), all funded EV chargers must be built in the U.S. The standards aim to ensure that charging stations are predictable, reliable, working, easily located, and will support drivers’ needs well into the future.
2025: As of November, 2025, approximately 20% of our charging ports were inoperable. Biden’s federal reliability standards included in NEVI were intended to combat this problem. Unfortunately, in February, 2025 the Trump administration suspended the Department of Transportation program behind those standards, freezing billions of dollars of unawarded funds intended to strengthen the country’s EV charging network.
As of February, 2025, Trump targeted all Biden-era climate policy for review and elimination, including all funding for electric vehicles from the Inflation Reduction Act and NEVI. In response, some states like Maryland and Tennessee decided to move forward with their already allocated funds for charging infrastructure while others, like Vermont, halted all projects under the program.
Trump partially justified his dismantling of NEVI by its slow progress: by the end of Biden’s term, only 25 charging plazas had been completed of the thousands promised. While the program didn’t meet its goals in terms of the numbers installed, the other main goal of building a consistent, reliable, and coordinated network with standardized requirements, was much more successful. In fact, the bureaucracy of NEVI, part of the reason for its glacial progress, may have been the very reason it was able to withstand Trump’s challenges. Although frozen in February, NEVI was restored by a district court in New York in June, 2025 and was finally reluctantly adopted by the Trump administration in August, 2025. $2 billion dollars remain to be distributed from the $5 billion originally allocated.
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