Electric vehicle drivers in the US will soon have a lot more places to juice up.

Volkswagen subsidiary Electrify America on Monday announced plans to install more than 2,800 electric vehicle charging stations at 500 sites across the US by June 2019. The stations will be located in workplaces and multi-unit dwellings in 17 of the country's biggest metropolitan areas. They will provide up to 20 to 25 miles of driving range per hour of charging.

Electrify America, for the uninitiated, is the unit VW created this February as part of its settlement with the California Air Resources Board and the US Environmental Protection Agency over its use of emissions cheating technology. The unit manages a $2 billion investment program to support the increased use of zero emissions vehicle technology in the US over the next decade.

"One of the biggest barriers to the mass-market adoption of electric vehicles is access to chargers," Electrify America CEO Mark McNabb said in a statement. "Having chargers where people work – and live – will help them see that an electric vehicle can be their primary vehicle because charging is convenient and reliable at the places where they spend time."

The charging stations will be installed in six California cities: Fresno, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, and San Jose and in Boston, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, Portland, Raleigh, Seattle, and Washington, DC. Approximately 75 percent of them will be located at workplaces, with the remainder at apartment buildings, condos, and other multi-family properties.

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"This aligns with one of the goals for the Electrify America program which is to increase charging infrastructure at the workplace, the second most likely place a vehicle spends time parked," the VW subsidiary wrote in a news release. "Employees with chargers at their workplace are six times more likely to drive a plug-in electric vehicle than the average worker, and chargers located at the workplace can potentially double an electric vehicle owner's daily driving range."

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