Anfac and Faconauto estimate that, in order to meet the EU's decarbonization objectives for 2030, it is necessary to multiply public facilities by 30 in just nine years.
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The automotive employers' associations Anfac and Faconauto estimate that Spain would need to have a total of 340,000 publicly accessible electric charging points to achieve the European Union's decarbonization targets by 2030. This means that they would have to start up about 328,500 new installations, since they currently have only 11,517 points. In other words, a 30-fold increase in public facilities in just nine years, which will require an investment of 5.5 billion euros by 2030, reaching nearly 13.5 billion euros by 2040.
This is shown in the map on the deployment of public access charging points for electrified vehicles presented by these associations, an initiative that aims to facilitate and boost the battery-powered and plug-in hybrid electric vehicle market to achieve a fleet of three million cars required by the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan for 2030.
"The industry has a strong commitment to decarbonization and is already putting a wide range of electrified vehicles on the market. But we are facing increasingly demanding reduction of emissions targets and, therefore, it is necessary to establish appropriate tools to accelerate the transition," explained Anfac's CEO, José López-Tafall.
Meanwhile, Faconauto's executive vice-president, Marta Blázquez, emphasized the need to eliminate the barriers to entry to electric vehicles for citizens. "The figures tell us that today, one of the most important barriers is the lack of an ample public network of recharging points, sufficiently spread out across our entire country," argued the director.
Map by Spanish Autonomous Communities
Anfac and Faconauto have developed a methodology for planning and monitoring, year by year, and at a quantitative and qualitative level, the development of the necessary public-access charging infrastructure at the national level, by autonomous communities, provinces, and main corridors according to average transport intensity level, in order to meet the penetration targets for electrified vehicles.
To establish the indicator of points needed and their distribution throughout the country, the starting point was the forecast of the number of electrified vehicles (passenger cars and light commercial vehicles) in each province until 2030, the driving-age population numbers in each province, and the amount of GDP by province, to subsequently apply a qualitative distribution by province based on three ratios: a 50 kW point for every 100 purely electric vehicles; a 150 kW point for every 1,000 purely electric vehicles, and a 250 kW for every 1,000 purely electric vehicles.
The combination of both analyses results in the detail of how many public-access recharging points and how much power should be deployed in each province, allowing annual objectives to be defined.
This analysis is further complemented by a study on the need for high power infrastructure, above 250 kW, in the main corridors of the Spanish State Highway Network. For this analysis, we took into account the average daily intensities per road section and province, a minimum distribution of one point per 100 km of road, the number of purely electric vehicles out of the total number of vehicles in each province, and that the waiting time to recharge is no than that of a vehicle already charging. In this way, the number of minimum high-power points in each of the corridors by province is obtained.
The combination of both analyses results in the detail of how many public-access recharging points and how much power should be deployed in each province. This tool makes it possible to define annual objectives, with intermediate milestones such as reaching 70,000 public access points by 2023, a sixfold increase to what currently exists; 120,000 by 2025, a tenfold increase to what currently exists; and 340,000 units by 2030. In this regard, both organizations called on the government to establish a road map, with binding objectives, based on an agreed methodology.
Source: Colpisa