Tuesday 30 April 2013

EU directive to drive growth of charging infrastructure

The ambitious European Commission draft directive on charging station targets for member states is reproduced below. This could well be a key driver of the European EV market from 2015 to 2020, once the legislation is enacted. 122,000 public charging stations (not sockets, so the total number of charge points will be higher) for the UK, that's a good target and one that will really drive growth. In my opinion, if 2014-15 is going to be all about rapid chargers, then 2015 to 2020 is going to be all about charging up the workplace.