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The Rural EV Charging Gap

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Rural Tesla Supercharger sites nearly match Shell, at about 3,000 each

A global view of rural charging and fuel sites, and the communities and landscapes around them.

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14,845 rows · CC BY-SA 4.0 · also on Kaggle

Running On EmptyLonely Roads, Lonely Pumps

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Key findings

  • The typical location has about 130 people living within a kilometre.
  • The typical site is 27 minutes by car from the nearest city.
  • Median solar potential is about 3.9 kWh per kW of panels per day.

About this dataset

Each entry marks a rural fuel-brand site or Tesla Supercharger and the surrounding community. Together, they show how these locations sit across population, household income, solar potential and distance from a city.

Use it for

  • Transport planners: Compare rural charging locations with nearby population and travel times.
  • Energy analysts: Assess where rural sites combine strong solar potential with low nearby population.
  • Market researchers: Compare the rural footprints of Tesla and major fuel brands.
  • Local governments: Identify rural areas where charging access may merit closer study.

Questions to explore

  1. Which brands have the largest rural footprints?
  2. Where are rural charging sites farthest from a city?
  3. Which rural locations pair low nearby population with strong solar potential?

Columns

id
Sequential identifier for an entry; no physical unit.
brand
Name of the fuel brand or charging network; category, not a unit.
people_within_1km
Estimated residents in the surrounding 1 km cell, in people.
drive_minutes_to_city
Estimated driving time to the nearest city, in minutes.
median_income_usd
Median household income for the surrounding census block group, in U.S. dollars; available for U.S. locations.
solar_output_kwh_per_kw_day
Expected daily generation from 1 kW of solar panels, in kWh per kW per day.
city
Matched city or urban area name; a place label.
state
State or province name; a place label.
country
Country name; a place label.
latitude
North-south coordinate in degrees, using the WGS84 reference system.
longitude
East-west coordinate in degrees, using the WGS84 reference system.

Sources

EDK-1 · EDK
EDK's spatial model: matches every record to its place and joins the context around it.
OpenStreetMap · OpenStreetMap contributors
Locations and brand identities for fuel stations and charging sites (ODbL 1.0)
Global Human Settlement Layer · European Commission JRC
Population estimates around each location (See publisher)
Travel time to cities and healthcare · Malaria Atlas Project
Estimated travel time to the nearest city (See publisher)
American Community Survey 5-year (block group) · US Census Bureau
Median household income for U.S. census areas (See publisher)
Global Solar Atlas · World Bank Group / Solargis
Estimated solar power potential (See publisher)

Released under CC BY-SA 4.0. Credit "EDK (edk.earth)" and the sources, and share what you build from it under the same license.

Good to know

  • Household income values cover U.S. locations only, so they do not support global comparisons.
  • Travel-time estimates are missing for some locations; check extreme values before comparing sites.