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T&E Study: Expansion of Public Charging Infrastructure on Course with Traffic Light Coalition Plans
As a new study by the European environmental umbrella organization Transport & Environment (T&E) shows, the expansion of charging infrastructure would keep pace with the increasing number of electric vehicles as a result of the tightening of EU fleet limits for cars and light commercial vehicles. The organization has calculated that there could be up to 3.1 million public charging points in Germany by 2035 if the CO2 limits for cars are tightened to the extent that they align with the goal set by the coalition government of having 15 million purely battery-electric vehicles by 2030. According to the NGO, there will still be enough charging points even if the German government and Members of the European Parliament push for more ambitious CO2 limits for cars than the European Commission has proposed.
Enough charging points: No fear of stricter CO2 limits
According to the study, there could be up to 1.7 million public charging points in Germany by 2030 as a result of the proposed EU infrastructure law, which obliges member states to expand charging infrastructure in proportion to the national stock of electric vehicles. Currently, there are around 63,000 public charging points in Germany, but both the EU Commission and the German government admit that many more are needed. T&E has calculated how far the public charging network would expand if the EU increases its CO2 limits for cars by 2025 and 2030, and sets a new interim target for 2027.
"Public charging points are a crucial issue for drivers. Through the EU infrastructure law, governments are legally required to approach the expansion of national charging infrastructure in line with the rising number of electric vehicles. The German government and Members of the European Parliament should not shy away from demanding stricter CO2 limits for cars, just because they fear there might not be enough charging points," appealed Friederike Piper, e-mobility officer at T&E Germany.
Even though a very dense network of public charging infrastructure appears desirable, most cars will continue to be charged at private charging points at home and at the workplace, according to the forecast of the NGO. According to calculations by T&E, the demands of the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) could lead to the construction of 9.5 million public charging points in Germany by 2035. This would mean that charging points would be used for less than an hour per day – far less than the 3.6 hours that, according to a report by ACEA, would be necessary for the charging infrastructure to be economically viable.
Auto industry sets unnecessarily high goals
From the perspective of the NGO, the goals of the auto industry are unnecessarily high and would require enormous public subsidies for charging infrastructure. The industry's goals are based on the unrealistic assumptions that 60 percent of charging will occur at public points and that an average electric car in 2030 will be less efficient than today's models.
“More is not necessarily better when it comes to public charging points. A massive expansion of the charging infrastructure, as some representatives of the auto industry are calling for, is unnecessary and would mean that in the end, taxpayers would have to bear the costs. In Germany, a maximum of three million public charging points are needed to meet the demand of the growing number of electric cars by 2035 and to have a financially viable network. Unrealistic demands on the infrastructure should not stand in the way of ambitious CO2 fleet limits for cars," Pieper further advocated.
The members of the EU Parliament and the governments are currently deciding on the EU Commission's proposal to tighten CO2 limits for cars in the 2020s and to require completely emission-free new cars by 2035.
Translated automatically from German.
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