3 to 6 million charging points by 2030? The solution with solar carports?

Around 6 million charging points are needed for a further 50% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2030

According to the Federal Network Agency, over 2,200 new charging stations for electric cars have been put into operation this year (as of June). The previous record year was 2019 with over 5,000 new charging stations. This means the expansion rate is roughly on par with last year. However, this is unlikely to be fast enough for Frans Timmermans' ambitious plans. If the EU Commissioner for Climate Action has his way, combustion engines will be phased out by 2035. Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton wants to achieve this goal no earlier than 2040.

 

 

This would require a massive expansion of the charging infrastructure. The goal is to have three million charging points in Europe by 2030. Currently, there are fewer than 225,000, of which around 21,000 are in Germany.

The EU Commission has calculated that around 6 million public charging points will be needed by 2030 to achieve a further 50% reduction in CO2 emissions.

The Green Party's parliamentary leader, Anton Hofreiter, has called for a massive acceleration in the expansion of charging infrastructure for electric cars. "I believe ten billion euros is the appropriate amount of public investment that we must quickly make to expand the charging station network," Hofreiter told Business Insider.

We've been writing for some time now about the urgent need to accelerate the expansion of charging infrastructure. The simplest solution lies in combining climate-friendly and, above all, infrastructural prerequisites:

• Electric vehicles
• Solar carports
• Charging options
• Energy storage

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• A solar parking lot with photovoltaic carports for parking spaces for companies such as retail businesses, for employees and customers

Demand for electric cars, mandatory solar panels , and EU directives are driving the expansion of mobile solar infrastructure.

Tesla solar charging station with 40 solar carports, all powered by solar energy. Tesla cars can be quickly charged within an hour using Supercharger stations.

According to a survey by the comparison portal Verivox, 25% of potential car buyers have expressed interest in purchasing an electric vehicle. Gasoline-powered cars remain the most popular choice at 37.9%. Diesel cars, at around 12%, already lag behind electric cars in terms of purchase interest for the near future.

Overall, 14.6 percent of all survey participants say their next car should be a purely electric vehicle. 7.7 percent plan to buy a plug-in hybrid. These are vehicles that can also drive short distances (approximately 50 kilometers) autonomously using electric power and are also eligible for the federal government's purchase incentive.

The sentiment is even clearer among those surveyed who plan to buy a car in the next 12 months. Of these, 25.0 percent want an electric vehicle – predominantly a pure electric car (16.2 percent), less frequently a plug-in hybrid (8.8 percent). The survey polled 1,000 private car owners.

One drawback, however, is that a high proportion of electric car registrations are predominantly company cars rather than private vehicles. Plug-in hybrids, like pure electric cars, offer employees a tax advantage if they also use the car privately. This is attractive even if the car would only be driven on gasoline or diesel in practice.

Nevertheless, the majority believes that the future belongs to the pure electric car. 32.4% of those surveyed think that pure electric cars will gain the most market share in the next 10 years. Among men, this figure is almost 40%. This puts electric vehicles significantly ahead of conventional hybrids (16.2%) and fuel cell vehicles (14.4%).

Those currently hesitant to buy an electric car most frequently cite insufficient range (46.7 percent) as the reason. A high purchase price (41.5 percent) and an insufficient number of charging stations (41.2 percent) are further reasons that currently discourage skeptics from buying an electric car.

There is little fundamental rejection of electric cars, but more technical reservations. 23.3 percent believe the environmental benefit is not significant enough, 12.3 percent say they have simply become accustomed to gasoline or diesel vehicles, and only 3.4 percent simply do not value CO2 savings.

Very few people want to forgo individual mobility in the future. When asked about their plans for their next car purchase, only 4.6 percent responded that they probably wouldn't buy a car at all.

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