T&E analyses how to get national charging strategies right.
Charging, or the lack thereof, is often cited as one of the biggest reasons why people are still hesitant to switch to electric vehicles (EVs). In this short briefing, we analyzed both the historic growth of charging infrastructure in Europe and the future needs. While many countries fail again and again to meet their self-set EV goals, the speed of charging infrastructure deployment is almost exclusively a success story across all EU members.
[Download national data for % of AFIR charging target. Download national data for historic increase in number of chargers (2020-2023)]
Even though it is repeatedly claimed otherwise, the deep East-West and North-South divide lacks any basis. On the contrary, many Eastern and Southern European countries have, relative to the number of EVs on the road, more charging power available than most of their Western and Northern European counterparts. The next step on the East and South would be to better implement the uptime and interoperability requirements of AFIR.
However, the proper implementation of the AFIR target is key to making it a lasting success. T&E recommends that member states shall go beyond the minimum ambition of AFIR and take into account the following elements:
To find out more, download the briefing.
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