A couple of disclaimers, I did not include California in this for a couple of reasons, they have other issues such as limited capacity but do seem to have most of the >100k cities covered with at least 1 SC or permits to build one with a few exceptions. I looked at cities only, not metropolitan areas but I don’t know how much that would change this. I consider the city as having limited to no SC charging if the closest is >25 miles away as you would be looking at probably a 1-hour round trip drive not counting the time it takes to charge. I live in Denver which is extremely well covered so not trying to push my local area.
I am using the raw data from the fantastic supercharge.info website as of last week and the U.S. Census population estimates for 2019. When I say they have no plans to fix it, I’m only stating what is known publicly based on permits/construction, etc. We have no idea what is being discussed internally of course but considering the time it takes to get a SC built these places will not see a SC anytime soon.
I started looking at this closer when I saw discussion here that Charleston, SC didn’t have a SC which not only has a large population, especially when combined with North Charleston (250,000+), but is also a big destination travel spot. With the Model Y now available, costs coming down for all models I think the Supercharger network is going to become a major issue both in capacity, speed and availability as it doesn’t appear to be keeping pace.
A couple places standout to me, New Orleans is the largest city on this list and to get to the SC 31 miles away you have to go across long bridge to reach it. Lubbock, TX has a population of over 250k and the closest SC is 122 miles away. Texas has 7 cities on this list and by far has the largest volume of truck sales in the country, while Cybertruck may not appeal to most Texans it would makes sense to have the infrastructure in place to support those sales, especially if it ends up being made in Texas.
I would love to see a blitz of Supercharging improvements in the U.S. to address not just these 24 cities but also some of the larger interstate gaps, capacity increased in heavily utilized areas and SC’s added to more low population but heavily visited spots such as national parks, ski resort towns, lakes, etc. A big push of 100 new installations over the next year would be amazing, even 50 would be a huge boost.
Please share your thoughts, point out any errors or how you would improve the SC network in the U.S.
I am using the raw data from the fantastic supercharge.info website as of last week and the U.S. Census population estimates for 2019. When I say they have no plans to fix it, I’m only stating what is known publicly based on permits/construction, etc. We have no idea what is being discussed internally of course but considering the time it takes to get a SC built these places will not see a SC anytime soon.
I started looking at this closer when I saw discussion here that Charleston, SC didn’t have a SC which not only has a large population, especially when combined with North Charleston (250,000+), but is also a big destination travel spot. With the Model Y now available, costs coming down for all models I think the Supercharger network is going to become a major issue both in capacity, speed and availability as it doesn’t appear to be keeping pace.
A couple places standout to me, New Orleans is the largest city on this list and to get to the SC 31 miles away you have to go across long bridge to reach it. Lubbock, TX has a population of over 250k and the closest SC is 122 miles away. Texas has 7 cities on this list and by far has the largest volume of truck sales in the country, while Cybertruck may not appeal to most Texans it would makes sense to have the infrastructure in place to support those sales, especially if it ends up being made in Texas.
I would love to see a blitz of Supercharging improvements in the U.S. to address not just these 24 cities but also some of the larger interstate gaps, capacity increased in heavily utilized areas and SC’s added to more low population but heavily visited spots such as national parks, ski resort towns, lakes, etc. A big push of 100 new installations over the next year would be amazing, even 50 would be a huge boost.
Please share your thoughts, point out any errors or how you would improve the SC network in the U.S.
