HERE-SBD Says U.S. Added 31,600 Public EV Charge Points in a Year — Total Charging Power Rose 47%

HERE Technologies and SBD Automotive say the U.S. added 31,600 public EV charge points during the June 2025-to-June 2026 period covered by their latest EV Index. The companies say those additions represent 13% of the country's total charge points.¹ Over the same measurement window, the index says total installed public charging power rose 47%, from 14.1 gigawatts to 20.7 GW.¹

The two figures describe different dimensions of the charging buildout. A charge-point total says how many points were added to HERE-SBD's measured network, while the aggregate-power figure measures the total charging power represented in that dataset. The public release does not provide enough detail to determine how much of the 47% increase came from newly installed higher-power equipment, upgrades, operator mix, data-source changes or another factor.¹

That also means the 47% figure is not evidence that an average charging session became 47% faster. Aggregate installed power does not by itself establish real-world session speed, uptime, utilization, queueing or driver wait times. HERE-SBD's result is an aggregate installed-power measure, not a direct measurement of the experience at any particular charger.¹

The latest edition reports 5,400 fewer additions

HERE-SBD's 2025 EV Index reported 37,000 new U.S. public charge points over its June 2024-to-June 2025 measurement window and explicitly described that figure as a 19% increase.² The 2026 edition reports 31,600 additions over the following June-to-June window.¹

Comparing the two published editions, the newer report contains 5,400 fewer charge-point additions. That is an Autonomous News calculation from the two releases, not a figure independently produced from raw charging-network data.¹²

The percentage figures in the two releases should not be compared as if they are the same measurement. The 2025 release explicitly calls 37,000 additions a 19% increase, while the 2026 release says 31,600 additions represent 13% of the country's total charge points. The current release does not state that annual charge-point growth was 13%, so the reviewed sources do not support saying growth fell from 19% to 13%.¹²

There is another reason to keep the comparison narrow: HERE's underlying charge-point data are proprietary. Both releases describe June-to-June measurement windows and combine HERE charge-point data with government and automotive data, but the public materials do not establish that every source feed, inclusion rule, duplicate treatment or data-cleaning method remained identical between editions.¹² The defensible comparison is therefore between the published addition counts, not a reconstructed national growth rate.

A separate dataset also shows continued expansion

Alliance for Automotive Innovation separately reported 242,354 publicly available U.S. charging outlets at the end of the first quarter of 2026 and said 9,212 new public chargers were added during that quarter.³ Those figures provide independent directional context that the public charging network was still expanding, but they are not a direct validation of HERE-SBD's 31,600 figure because the Alliance data cover a different period and use a different data pipeline.¹³

HERE and SBD released the fourth annual EV Index on September 9. Its infrastructure analysis covers all 50 states and Washington, D.C., using HERE proprietary charge-point data together with government and automotive data sources.¹ The useful takeaway from this edition is the contrast between 31,600 added charge points and a 47% increase in aggregate installed charging power—with each figure kept inside the scope of the proprietary index that produced it.¹

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Footnotes

1. Americans warming up to EVs as charging infrastructure confidence grows, HERE-SBD EV Index 2026 finds — HERE Technologies / SBD Automotive, Sept. 9, 2026. https://www.here.com/about/press-releases/americans-warming-up-to-evs-as-charging-infrastructure-confidence-grows-here-sbd-ev-index-2026-finds Establishes the Sept. 9 release; 31,600 public charge points added; the statement that those additions represent 13% of the country's total charge points; the 14.1-to-20.7-GW / 47% aggregate charge-power increase; the June 2025-June 2026 infrastructure window; and the stated data methodology. It does not label 13% as annual charge-point growth. HERE/SBD are the originators of the proprietary index, so measurements remain attributed. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹

2. EV Infrastructure Growth Slows as Consumers Cite Charging Access as Top Barrier to Adoption across U.S. and Europe — HERE Technologies / SBD Automotive, Sept. 4, 2025. https://www.here.com/about/press-releases/ev-infrastructure-growth-slows-as-consumers-cite-charging-access-as-top Establishes the prior edition's 37,000 added U.S. public charge points, its explicit characterization of that figure as a 19% increase, and the June 2024-June 2025 measurement window. Used only for report-to-report context; it does not establish a like-for-like 19%-to-13% growth-rate comparison. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

3. Alliance for Automotive Innovation Reports New U.S. Electric Vehicle Data — Alliance for Automotive Innovation, July 1, 2026. https://www.autosinnovate.org/posts/press-release/2026-q1-get-connected-press-release Establishes Alliance's end-Q1 2026 total of 242,354 publicly available U.S. charging outlets and 9,212 new public chargers added during the quarter. Its period and data pipeline differ from HERE-SBD's, so it is used only as directional independent context. ↩ ↩²