GM is looking to make electric cars more accessible with more chargers.

Automotive company General Motors announced today that they are hoping to install at least 40,000 electric vehicle charging stations around the United States and Canada, specifically in both urban and rural areas that may have previously been passed over for such installations. This process will be carried out both by GM themselves and their network of associated dealers and manufacturers.

GM has been attempting to break into the EV industry lately with pledges to go entirely electric in the near future. Part of this pledge includes a greater emphasis on EV-compliant infrastructure, which means EV charging stations available wherever drivers could theoretically need them. GM will be personally financing at least part of the charger installation effort by providing their Ultium charging stations to dealers around the country, though they are hoping to secure aid from financers to fund the majority of the operation.

“When you think about the hill that we have to climb for customers to access charging in all communities, not just the ones that have been early adopters, we need a lot,” said Alex Keros, lead architect of EV infrastructure at GM.

“In the dealer communities, we envision that it would be a collaboration, mostly between the dealer and the community partners that we would be working with,” Keros said about the installation process. “But we also we recognize there’s a lot of variables. So we will work with the dealers and the community members to make sure, for example, if there’s grants or other types of things, that we’re trying to be as helpful as possible.”