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How Amazon built an EV charging network in two years

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Unrivalled, even compared to the supercharger network? Sounds like clickbait

"In a little more than two years, Amazon has installed more than 17,000 chargers at about 120 warehouses around the US, making the retail giant the largest operator of private electrical vehicle charging infrastructure in the country."

So presumably unrivalled compared with other charging systems that aren't open to the public. It's not really a charging "network" either, so I agree the title is clickbait-y. Article is decently informative though!

To put these numbers in context, in the UK Zapmap has published some nice stats on public charging network in the UK: https://www.zap-map.com/ev-stats/how-many-charging-points. There are around 60K of those. Of which about 11K are rapid chargers.

However, a little paragraph puts that number in perspective by stating; "However, they do not include the many charge points installed at home or at workplace locations, which are estimated to be more than 700,000"

That's a lot of chargers. The number of petrol stations in the UK is below 9K and slowly shrinking as people transition to driving electric.

The UK is probably a little bit ahead on the US with it's charging network and itself a little bit behind on other countries in the EU. But 17k level 2 chargers isn't that impressive.

Amazon is probably doing a numbers game here and is prioritizing electrifying their fleet in places where fuel is expensive and the cost savings are higher.

>How Amazon built an EV charging network in two years

Money

Well, Congress has spent $7B on chargers with not much to show for it. . https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/05/congress-ev-charger...

> Well, Congress has spent $7B on chargers with not much to show for it.

According to your link, Congress has allocated $7B, sent $2B of that to states, but none has actually been delivered to contractors.

So, if I understand the article correctly, no money has been spent.

Yup, but goes to show that money isn't enough.

For all other Tesla enthusiasts, it stands unmatched in the industrial sector, especially regarding the speed of worldwide deployment. Here in Germany, while Deutsche Post operates a fleet of electric delivery vehicles, this only includes the smaller ones; the vans predominantly remain internal combustion (IC).

Amazon has recently initiated the use of electric vehicles here, and almost overnight, internal combustion vehicles have virtually disappeared.

Unrivaled? Tesla has 3x superchargers.

And Tesla was much much poorer when building its network.

Relax. This is not an attack on Tesla. It is unrivaled because there is no other industrial sector that electrified like that their own operations.

But this article is praising another sport team, of course fans are going to be angry. Wait, what do you mean by “this isn't about sport teams”.

Nobody said it's an attack on Tesla. You're fighting the straw man.

I just corrected an incorrect statement.

You need to relax and stop posting nonsense.

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