A casual look at the US CHAdeMO map gives the immediate impression that the network is not only concentrated on the left and right coasts of the USA, but that it is urban. This matters to any LEAF owner who wants to use the car to take longish trips. I wanted to give the urbanity impression a less qualitative treatment so I downloaded from the AFDC website a table of the USA CHAdeMO network and found 1916 locations.
I then filtered for 24 hour public access and found 1598 locations
I then added to that table a column of population by zip code from census.gov
And sorted by zip code population. The highest population zip codes in the USA are about 100,000
Results:
There is 1 location in zip codes under 5,000 population
There are 10 locations in zip codes under 10,000 population
There are 109 locations in zip codes under 15,000 population
There are 231 locations in zip codes under 20,000 population
Note, these are locations. The data does not tell us how many plugs per location, maximum charging speeds, or functional status. There are many locations that are 25 kW maximum speed and classified as DCFC. I think most locations are two plugs but e.g. the EA network typically has one CHAdeMO plug per location. And lastly, out of service is far from uncommon. E.g in my city of Albuquerque, NM of the 5 locations 3 are not in operation and 1 is hobbled.
References:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wtrsDC4bTxDarvX21fT1Y7CyEh1wMbYrtlCHMLNJgHY/edit#gid=1717417266&fvid=1073564598 .If you want to play with the data, make a copy of the spreadsheet.
US Census data: https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?fpt=table
AFDC: https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity_locations.html#/analyze?fuel=ELEC&ev_connectors=CHADEMO&ev_levels=dc_fast
I then filtered for 24 hour public access and found 1598 locations
I then added to that table a column of population by zip code from census.gov
And sorted by zip code population. The highest population zip codes in the USA are about 100,000
Results:
There is 1 location in zip codes under 5,000 population
There are 10 locations in zip codes under 10,000 population
There are 109 locations in zip codes under 15,000 population
There are 231 locations in zip codes under 20,000 population
Note, these are locations. The data does not tell us how many plugs per location, maximum charging speeds, or functional status. There are many locations that are 25 kW maximum speed and classified as DCFC. I think most locations are two plugs but e.g. the EA network typically has one CHAdeMO plug per location. And lastly, out of service is far from uncommon. E.g in my city of Albuquerque, NM of the 5 locations 3 are not in operation and 1 is hobbled.
References:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wtrsDC4bTxDarvX21fT1Y7CyEh1wMbYrtlCHMLNJgHY/edit#gid=1717417266&fvid=1073564598 .If you want to play with the data, make a copy of the spreadsheet.
US Census data: https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?fpt=table
AFDC: https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity_locations.html#/analyze?fuel=ELEC&ev_connectors=CHADEMO&ev_levels=dc_fast