China plans to construct 800,000 new charging points to support the growing new energy vehicle (NEV) market, including the installation of 100,000 public chargers and 700,000 non-public chargers. The government has also announced that it will increase its target for electric car sales from 2015 levels by 50 percent in order to meet China’s goal of having 1 million EVs on Chinese roads by 2020. China currently has some 150,000 public NEV charging points in operation. The lack of charging points has long been hindering NEV sales in China. The points, due to be placed in cities and along highways, will continue to be installed at breakneck pace until at least 2020 to create enough capacity to support five million NEVs.
China plans to construct 800,000 new charging points to support the growing new energy vehicle (NEV) market, including the installation of 100,000 public chargers and 700,000 non-public chargers. The government has also announced that it will increase its target for electric car sales from 2015 levels by 50 percent in order to meet China’s goal of having 1 million EVs on Chinese roads by 2020. China currently has some 150,000 public NEV charging points in operation. The points, due to be placed in cities and along highways, will continue to be installed at breakneck pace until at least 2020 to create enough capacity to support five million NEVs.