US Adds Hundreds of High-Speed Charging Stations in Q2

While buying an electric vehicle is about to get slightly more expensive for some Americans, charging one just got quite a bit easier.

Some 703 high-speed, public charging stations opened in the US in the second quarter, the second-largest such infrastructure boom on record, according to Department of Energy data. There are now about 11,400 places in the country to quickly top up a car battery, including dots on the most rural swathes of the map.

Plans for nearly all of the new chargers were likely underway before the Trump administration began gutting EV incentives, according to BloombergNEF analyst Ash ...