Most EU countries have already achieved their 2024 targets for public charging infrastructure for electric vehicles by 2023, according to a new study by the NGO network Transport & Environment (T&E) published on Wednesday 17 April.
The number of public electric vehicle chargers in the EU has tripled in the last 3 years. There were more than 630,000 charging points in the EU by the end of 2023, and the charging network has grown faster than the electric vehicle fleet.
Under the European Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR), which came into force on Saturday 13 April (see EUROPE 13279/25), each country has annual targets based on a ratio between total recharging capacity and the number of electric cars on the road.
“[...] governments need to go beyond the strict requirements of the EU targets if they are to convince more drivers”, said Fabian Sperka, vehicle policy manager at T&E, in a press release. T&E has issued recommendations for Member States to go beyond the minimum ambition of ‘AFIR’.
Read the study: https://aeur.eu/f/bth (Original version in French by Anne Damiani)