Eric Wood

1 month ago | nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Akash Anand |Anna M. Pidgeon |Eric Wood |Eduarda Silveira

Introduction The distributions and abundances of animal species result from individual habitat selection decisions, as well as population-level processes (Brown 1984). Habitat selection is a hierarchical process (Johnson 1980) that occurs across multiple spatial scales, in which habitat features characterized at a range of scales of both grain (resolution) and extent influence patterns of habitat use (McGarigal et al. 2016).

Jan 27, 2025 | nature.com | Lily Hanig |Catherine Ledna |Destenie Nock |Corey Harper |Arthur Yip |Eric Wood | +1 more

The United States federal government has invested $7.5 billion into charging infrastructure, including the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program, to build fast charging stations along designated highways for long-distance car travel. We develop a consecutive coverage metric to compute the percent of United States roads (traffic-weighted) that are consecutively accessible within 500 miles of each county. We answer (1) what the state of consecutive coverage is in each county and (2) what the increase in coverage is when designated highways receive fast chargers. In 2023, 10% of counties had at least 75% minimum viable coverage. We find that if all designated highways receive fast-charging stations, 94% of United States counties will reach at least 75% fast charger coverage. However, the remaining counties are rural. This demonstrates that federal funding for fast chargers will help connect most—but not all—counties to the national network of continuously accessible charging stations. Consecutive coverage of fast charging station access for long distance Electric Vehicle trips in the U.S. is lacking. However, if implemented as planned, federal funding for chargers will help most counties reach high consecutive coverage.