A solar parking lot with photovoltaic carports for parking spaces for companies and retailers for employees and customers
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Published on: July 22, 2021 / update from: August 4, 2021 - Author: Konrad Wolfenstein
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Generating electricity with solar carports solar requirement applies to open parking spaces and parking spaces, especially in the commercial sector . The so-called solar carport requirement will now affect all new commercial buildings in Baden-Württemberg and North Rhine-Westphalia from 2022.
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- From 75 open parking spaces - solar carport mandatory for new parking spaces in BaWü - Baden-Württemberg - BW, private and company parking spaces or similar.
- From 35 open parking spaces – mandatory solar in NRW? North Rhine-Westphalia - The current status - New: solar carport solar requirement
It is well known that the promotion of electromobility (environmental bonuses) is considered the key to climate-friendly mobility. This can be seen in the considerable increase in new registrations of electric vehicles. However, the successful implementation of emission-free transportation requires three other important points that ensure a sensible and truly climate-friendly switch from combustion engines to electric mobility. As long as the famous electricity still comes from the socket, the eco-switch is not a real one.
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In order to achieve this, charging options are also important in addition to funding. But there are already bottlenecks here. The number of charging options is far from sufficient to do justice to the growth in electric cars driven by funding.
The next step should be the already sealed areas in open parking areas with covered photovoltaic systems, solar carports.
Requirements for a real switch to climate-friendly mobility:
- Electric vehicles
- Solar carports
- Charging options
- Electricity storage
The electricity generated via the solar parking spaces can either be fed into the power grid or temporarily stored - an electricity storage system. What is the best option here must be determined separately. Ideally, a charging station will be installed in the solar-powered, once open and now covered parking spaces so that the electric vehicles can use the idle time to charge. Despite all the enthusiasm for electromobility, there are still some significant weak points compared to conventional combustion engines. This includes the relatively long charging time and the shorter range per charge. Since the switch is now the law and all combustion engines must have disappeared, at least in Europe, by 2030, electromobility will quickly catch up with combustion engine technology that has been optimized for decades.
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- First federal state dares to take the step: solar obligation in BaWü – Baden-Württemberg
How available are charging options for electric cars from electricity providers?
Survey on the availability of charging options for electric cars by electricity providers - Image: Xpert.Digital
According to a survey from 2019, 60 to well over 70 percent of respondents cannot make precise statements about what their electricity provider offers when it comes to charging options for electric cars. This was particularly pronounced in the area of “wallboxes”, private charging stations for your own garage.
Does your electricity supplier already offer charging stations for electric cars in public areas?
60% – Don’t know/no answer
12.5% – No
27.5% – Yes
Does your electricity supplier offer charging stations for your own garage – so-called wallboxes?
77.1% – Don’t know/no answer
14.1% – No
8.8% – Yes
How many new registrations of electric cars are there in Germany?
New registrations of electric cars – Image: Xpert.Digital
New registrations of electric cars – Image: Xpert.Digital
The statistics show new registrations of purely battery-powered electric cars. The term electromobility often includes different types of electric or partially electric drives. Battery electric vehicles are powered exclusively by an electric motor, which draws the required electrical energy from a traction battery. Plug-in hybrid vehicles, which have an internal combustion engine in addition to an electric motor and only partially run purely electrically, are usually also included under the term electromobility.
- 2003 – 28 electric cars
- 2004 – 61 electric cars
- 2005 – 47 electric cars
- 2006 – 19 electric cars
- 2007 – 8 electric cars
- 2008 – 36 electric cars
- 2009 – 162 electric cars
- 2010 – 541 electric cars
- 2011 – 2,154 electric cars
- 2012 – 2,956 electric cars
- 2013 – 6,051 electric cars
- 2014 – 8,522 electric cars
- 2015 – 12,363 electric cars
- 2016 – 11,410 electric cars
- 2017 – 25,056 electric cars
- 2018 – 36,062 electric cars
- 2019 – 63,281 electric cars
- 2020 – 194,163 electric cars
- 2021 – 115,296 (January to May)
How many new passenger car registrations with alternative drives were there in Germany in 2020?
Number of new registrations of passenger cars with alternative drives – Image: Xpert.Digital
Number of new registrations of passenger cars with alternative drives – Image: Xpert.Digital
Alternative drives with growing market share: Both hybrid cars and electric cars have been in greater demand in recent years. The proportion of cars with diesel and gasoline engines is falling accordingly.
- Hybrid – 527,864 passenger cars
- Electric – 194,163 passenger cars
- Natural gas – 7,159 passenger vehicles
- Liquefied petroleum gas – 6,543 passenger cars
How often has the environmental bonus been applied for for the different types of electric cars?
Applied environmental bonuses for electric cars by design in Germany – Image: Xpert.Digital
Applied environmental bonuses for electric cars by design in Germany – Image: Xpert.Digital
This statistic shows the number of purchase bonuses applied for for electric vehicles, which are also known as environmental bonuses, by type of electric vehicle drive in Germany (as of June 1, 2021). The purchase (purchase or leasing) of an electric vehicle that is registered for the first time and does not exceed a net list price of the basic model of 65,000 euros is eligible for funding. By the date stated, a total of around 359,400 environmental bonuses had been applied for purely battery-powered electric vehicles in Germany.
- Pure battery electric vehicles – 359,446
- Plug-In Hybrids – 282,083
- Fuel cell vehicles – 198
- Total – 641,727
What influence does the charging station network in Germany have on electric vehicles?
Expert survey on the influence of the charging station network on the electric car market – Image: Xpert.Digital
The statistics show the results of a survey among eMobility experts in Germany who have been working in the field of eMobility for at least 2 years. It's about the influence of the expansion of the charging station network on the market for electric vehicles. In 2018, around 6 percent of the experts surveyed were of the opinion that the expansion of the charging station network has little impact on the German market for electric vehicles.
- 70%: It has a strong influence
- 22%: It has some impact for electric vehicles
- 6% %: The charging station network has little influence
- 0%: It has no influence
- 2%: A small percentage don’t know
- 0%: Did not provide any information
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