The State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) plans by 2020 to create a network of 120 thousand public columns for charging electric vehicles.
It will cover the cities of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei-Shandong and Yangtze River deltas, as well as major cities in other regions, the company said in a press release.
Jiang Bin, chairman of the board of EV Service, part of SGCC, said that in 2017, charging columns for 10,000 parking spaces were installed in some of the old residential areas of Beijing and Shanghai.
“Since 2020, electric vehicles are likely to go beyond the characteristics as a vehicle and will become the main unit of the energy system,” Xinhua news agency quoted him as saying.
According to Jiang Bin, SGCC’s goal is to facilitate long-distance trips by electric transport by connecting 3 million charging speakers to its smart car platform.
At present, 19 operators of charging columns, 170 thousand columns and more than 800 thousand users are connected to this Internet platform.
The Chinese market for cars on new energy carriers is the largest in the world. In January-November 2017, more than 490,000 such cars were sold in the country.
As expected, sales for the whole year will exceed 577 thousand units, according to the database on sales of electric vehicles EV-Volumes.
