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Eight times more charging stations are needed in Europe: ACEA, the Association of European Car Manufacturers, raises the charging alarm by comparing the expected requirement based on the electric fleet expected in 2030 and the pace of new installations.
The Association’s new report notes that sales of electric cars in the EU they are grew three times faster respect to charging points between 2017 and 2023.
Last year, for example, just over 150,000 public charging points were installed across the EU (on average less than 3,000 per week), for a total of over 630,000.
According to the European Commission, they should be installed by 2030 3.5 million charging points. Achieving this would mean installing approximately 410,000 points public top-ups per year. That’s equivalent to almost 8,000 a week, almost three times the latest annual installation rate.
Eight times more would be needed every year
However, ACEA estimates that as many as 8.8 million charging points will be needed by 2030. To achieve this goal, 1.2 million new chargers would be needed every year. That is, more than 22,000 per week: eight times the installation rate most recent annual.
«To achieve Europe’s ambitious CO2 emissions reduction targets, mass adoption of electric cars is needed in all EU countries – he has declared Sigrid de Vries, Director General of ACEA – This will not happen without widespread availability of public charging infrastructure across the region.” He then added: «We are very worried. This ‘infrastructure gap’ risks increasing in the future, to a much greater extent than the European Commission estimates».
