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Yeah it isn't clear to me from the details currently available that this is much more than a PR stunt. A quick Google tells me that Germany has around 15,000 p

Yeah it isn't clear to me from the details currently available that this is much more than a PR stunt. A quick Google tells me that Germany has around 15,000 petrol filling stations and already has around 90,000 public charging points. Even if we assume that not a single petrol filling station has a charging point...and also assume that the not yet even proposed law is going to require a minimum of 2 charging points per station...that still only increases the supply by 30%. We can all imagine variations on those parameters that make it look better or worse. Maybe they'll be required to have parity in numbers between petrol & EV pumps? But without anything concrete about the law, it is hard to know what there is to even discuss here yet.

piquadrat 3y ago
Only about 7000 of those are HPCs (150kW+)[1]. This proposed law mandates at least 150kw per charge point, so it would more than triple the amount of HPC charge points. In general, it makes a lot of sense to differentiate between slow chargers (usually AC, 11-22kW, installed at home, at work, in parking lots), DC fast chargers (50-100kw, often installed at grocery stores and similar) and HPCs (150kw+, often installed along highway corridors, enabling longer trips). They all serve different purposes. [1]: https://www.reuters.com/technology/germany-added-35-more-electric-car-charge-points-2022-says-bdew-2023-04-18/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/germany-added-35-more-ele...
Timon3 3y ago
Even if it only increases the supply by 30% it might be a massive help. The raw number isn't as important as the distribution. If all the charging stations currently are in hotspots, rural areas don't benefit from them. But rural areas have gas stations which this law will affect.