The European Union does not have enough charging stations for electric cars, warned the manufacturers’ association ACEA on Monday, emphasizing that the pace of their installation significantly lags behind sales.
Since 2017, the sales of electric cars have been growing three times faster than the number of charging stations, states ACEA.
To keep pace, the EU must significantly accelerate the installation rate by 2030, the association warned.
Companies have invested large amounts in the production of electric vehicles, and the EU plans to ban the sale of new fossil fuel-powered vehicles in the next decade.
– Achieving ambitious European goals for reducing CO2 requires mass adoption of electric cars across all EU markets, and this cannot be achieved without widely available public charging infrastructure – said ACEA Secretary General Sigrid de Vries in a statement.
The European Commission estimates that 3.5 million charging stations need to be built by 2030.
To achieve this goal, eight thousand charging stations need to be installed weekly, calculated ACEA, which would mean that the installation pace should be three times faster.
They simultaneously warn that 3.5 million charging stations will not be enough, adding that 8.8 million should be installed, or 22 thousand weekly.
