Fact check: EV transition does not require every gas station in the U.S. to go electric
Fact check: EV transition does not require every gas station in the U.S. to go electric Kate S. Petersen USA TODAY The claim: Replacing all U.S. gas stations with equal capacity EV charging stations would require significant resources The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law includes more than $7 billion to support the continued development of an electric vehicle charging infrastructure across the U.S. Recently, some social media users began posting criticism of a hypothetical scenario in which all U.S. gas stations would be replaced with equal capacity EV charging stations. "Fun EV fact,” reads a Jan. 16 Facebook post . “To match the 2,000 cars that a typical filling station can service in 12 hours, an EV charging station requires 600 50-kW chargers at an estimated cost of $24 million and a supply of 30 megawatts of power from the grid. For. Each. Filling. Station. In. America.” The post received over 1,000 interactions in five days. A Jan. 16 version of this claim on Twitter ...