Record EV Fast Charger Deployment in USA — Trump or No Trump – CleanTechnica

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Last Updated on: 29th July 2025, 02:07 am

A new report, State of the Industry Report: U.S. EV Fast Charging — Q2 2025, is out today from Paren. Despite Donald Trump blowing up federal support for EV charging infrastructure, the country is still on track for record deployments of EV fast chargers in 2025.

Perhaps even more importantly, the design of fast chargers is improving! The industry trend is toward installing more charging ports at stations, something we at CleanTechnica have been pushing for for about a decade! You simply need more charging ports in order to ensure drivers don’t have to wait and maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of building out charging stations.

Paren also notes that there’s a trend toward higher-power stations, as one would expect, since that’s been the long-term trend and that’s just how tech works. (A decade ago, a 50 kW station was considered a fast charger!)

Pricing is also getting more predictable. And, very importantly, Paren reports that charging infrastructure got more reliable in the second quarter.

Paren expects the US will see 19% growth in charging ports year over year in 2025, a significant increase to boost the growing EV fleet in the country.

“2025 is going to be a record year for deployment of DC fast charging ports — and 2024 was already the highest year on record,” said Loren McDonald, chief analyst at Paren and former CleanTechnica contributor. “Charging 2.0 players are deploying new — and larger — stations at a breakneck pace.”

Here are more key findings from Paren from the company’s latest report:

• Major CPOs are opening new or expanding existing stations to include 8, 10, 12, or more ports as the fast-charging market rapidly consolidates around high-output hardware that supports speed, scalability, and future demand.
• The national average utilization rate declined to 16.1% from 16.6% in Q1 due, in part, to seasonality and warmer weather. In a potential warning sign for the industry, however, we observed declining utilization rates across some unexpected markets — suggesting that new charger deployments may be beginning to outpace demand, particularly in regions with lower EV adoption.
• Paren’s U.S. Reliability Index measured a year-over-year improvement of 5.3% as new stations are deployed and many older ones are retired or replaced.
• The national average price per kWh declined to $0.48 in Q2, down from $0.50 in Q1. This decrease was partly driven by the continued shift to time-of-use (TOU) pricing — with 366 stations nationwide transitioning from fixed to TOU pricing, one-third of which were in California.
• Charging providers continued to test pricing strategies and elasticity: 29% of stations with either fixed or TOU pricing adjusted their rates in Q2, either up or down. Notably, despite the overall national decline, California saw an average price increase of 3 cents among stations that changed their pricing since last quarter.

You can find the full report here.

Additionally, or alternatively, you can register for a webinar about the report scheduled for Wednesday, July 30, at 1:00 pm EDT/10:00 am PDT here.

Despite all of the political nonsense, tech marches on, and that includes EV charging tech. Will EV charger deployment be slower with federal government support getting slashed? Of course. But that doesn’t mean it won’t keep marching forward.