Cross out target for 2030
In recent years, the news has been full of ambitious goals when it comes to public electric charging stations. The more, the better, seemed to be the motto. Germany comes back to that. Fewer public charging stations seem to be needed than expected, which is why the target set for 2030 is being canceled.
Policymakers in the Netherlands and the European Union seem to agree on one thing: there should be more public charging stations for electric cars. Earlier this year, the European Parliament endorsed a plan to have one public fast charger for at least every 60 km of motorway throughout the EU. That sounds sensible, especially for electric holiday traffic, for example. The total number of public charging stations in a country depends on local policy and in Germany, since last year, the goal has been to have one million public charging stations by 2030. The German Ministry of Transport is now coming back to this, reports Bloomberg.
Charging at home is proving to be many times more popular than expected when the goal was set. That is why it is now expected that the target of 1 million charging stations is too high, because there is a good chance that many charging stations will hardly be used. There are already ten home chargers for every public charging station in Germany. According to an analyst from BNEF Bloomberg that by 2030 Germany would not even have enough of half the planned number. The fact that Germany initially ‘set off’ itself in this way is said to have to do with the lobby from the local car industry. It will of course benefit from an optimistic future for electric driving.
Dutch target
In the Netherlands, some charging station operators sounded the alarm earlier this month that there is a threat of a shortage of public charging stations here, although that is a bit of preaching to their own parish. The Netherlands is already a leader in the EU when it comes to the number of charging stations, but a lot will indeed have to be added in the coming years to meet the need. After all, it is expected that in 2030 there will be 1.9 million electric cars driving around here and together they will need more than 1.7 million charging points, the government estimates for the time being. Of those 1.7 million charging points, the majority, almost 1 million, should be public or semi-public. In fact, the Netherlands has roughly the same goal as Germany. It remains to be seen whether our policymakers will reconsider, in response to what is happening in Germany.
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