EU makes e-cars more attractive: new rule tackles big problem
According to the will of the EU, electric cars should have significantly more charging options. Charging stations are planned every 60 kilometers on motorways and trunk roads, and hydrogen can be refueled every 200 kilometers.
E-cars: charging stations every 60 kilometers
Negotiators from the European Parliament and the EU states have agreed on the expansion of charging stations for electric cars along the most important main roads. In the future, drivers should a charging station at least every 60 kilometers can be found along freeways and trunk roads. There should be a filling station for hydrogen every 200 kilometers.
The EU compromise that has now been found is intended to help significantly improve the infrastructure for electric and hydrogen charging stations. The number of electric cars has increased seventeenfold since 2016 Charging stations, however, only sixfold, as summarized by SPD MP Ismail Ertug. According to Sweden’s Infrastructure Minister Andreas Carlson, e-car drivers will no longer have to worry about finding charging points in the future.
The expansion targets initially apply to the TEN-T core network, which includes the most important main traffic routes in the EU. However, it can Exceptions for very remote regions as well as for islands with little traffic (source: Welt).
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EU: More charging stations by 2025
The Member States do not have much time left. In the TEN-T core network, the Specifications apply from the end of 2025. Charging options with initially at least 400 kilowatts of power are to be created here. Two years later, the minimum output is to be raised to 600 kilowatts.
Payment options at charging stations are also to be simplified by the end of 2027. According to Jens Gieseke, the transport policy spokesman for the CDU/CSU in the European Parliament, consumers are given the opportunity “pay by card, contactless and with the help of QR codes”.
