Source: Charging Deployment dashboard
Over the past few months, the EV Hub team has been busy giving our Charging Deployment dashboard a much-needed makeover. This new look is designed to significantly improve the user experience by simplifying the visuals, consolidating all the data onto one page so that users can view interactions across all visuals, and conduct more analysis on critical touchpoints of the electric vehicle (EV) charging sector.
For context, EV Hub’s Charging Deployment dashboard tracks and visualizes the growth of EV charging availability over time. With this dashboard, users can see the deployment of both Direct Current Fast Chargers (DCFC) and Level 2 (L2) chargers in the United States over time, and filter by EV charging network or geography (i.e. utility territory, state, county, city, and highway corridor).
Charging data is sourced from the Alternative Fuels Database Center ‘s (AFDC) Station Locator. This data reflects charging stations that are currently operational. AFDC removes stations that are no longer operational as they become aware of those status changes. AFDC updates their data on a rolling basis and EV Hub’s dashboard is updated every weekday, through AFDC’s API.
The dashboard comes fresh with four key performance indicators (KPIs) that give users quick EV charging insights, including number of charging ports, number of stations, number of charging networks, and the average stations opened per month over the last 12 months. The KPIs respond as filters are applied, providing high-level metrics for different data interests or stories.
Below are a few ways to interact with the dashboard.
Tracking EV charging growth over time
How is the EV charging infrastructure market developing? This dashboard highlights the deployment of EV charging ports over time, including both DCFC and L2 chargers. Users can toggle between “Current Ports Installed,” which displayed operational charging stations by quarter and network, and “Annual Snapshot,” which provides a yearly overview of EV charging deployment, reflecting stations that have been closed as well.
Identifying station locations
Additionally, the dashboard also visualizes station information per state, including two key maps: a summary map and a detail map. The summary map highlights the number of stations per 1,000 EVs and provides an overview of the number of charging stations in each state. It also includes EV sales data, helping users assess the vehicle-to-charger ratio for each state. The detail map uses point location data to show where chargers are physically located in the United States. Users can filter this map by state and by charging level.
Viewing station details by year and by network
The dashboard also tabulates additional station details by year and by network, providing users with additional insights about the growth of the EV charging market.
By year, users can see data for the following metrics:
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Cumulative stations opened (through the end of that year)
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Stations opened (during that year only)
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Stations opened year over year percentage change
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Cumulative ports opened (through the end of that year)
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Ports opened (during that year only)
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Average ports per station
By EV network, users can see data for the following metrics:
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Stations opened
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Stations opened year over year percentage change
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Ports opened
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Average ports per station
Conducting custom analysis
Lastly, the revamped dashboard introduces a custom analysis feature for exploring EV charging deployment in the U.S. The “Analysis” tab allows users to compare charging infrastructure across different states, networks, time periods, and more. For example, users can compare ChargePoint’s network in Colorado to its network in California, with data showing the number of chargers, growth over time, and demographic characteristics for each state.
View the refreshed Charging Deployment Dashboard here.
