When we consider buying an electric car, we are always put off by the fact that, in most cases, they are cars limited to urban areas. And not only because of the autonomy, but also because of the charging network that, as a general rule, is scarce. Europe, aware of this, has decided to step on the accelerator and demand the presence of a charger every 60 kilometers and a hydrogen charger every 100 kilometers in the year 2026.
And that is another point to take into account, the alternatives to the electric car that, sooner or later, will be very viable. Thus, the hydrogen vehicle will end up having a large place in the market together with synthetic fuels, two livelihoods that require strong expansioneven greater than that of the electric car given its current low presence in the market.
Europe accelerates with the high point to make the electric car more viable
This has been made clear by the European Parliament, who has approved a bill with which it requests that there be charging points for electric cars every 60 kilometers and every 100 kilometers for hydrogen carshaving to be ready the first case no later than the year 2026.
In turn, this infrastructure that would put an end to one of the biggest problems of the electric car would be present on the busiest roads in Europe. But we must bear in mind that this crucial point It is only the small part of a great plan, the one known as “Goal 55 in 2030”.
This aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union by at least 55% -compared to 1990- in 2030. And that is where we find Europe’s concern and the need to step on the accelerator with a plan that it is meeting half of the objectives that should have been met by now.
This is confirmed Ismail Ertugcreator of the text on infrastructures for alternative fuels, who indicates that “at this moment we have 377,000 charging stations in the EUthat is, half of what should have been achieved if the member countries had kept their promises.”
But what is really worrying is that six countries in the European Union do not have a single charger every 100 kilometers, while seventeen have less than five charging points per 100 kilometers. In this way, Germany, Portugal, the Netherlands and Luxembourg are the only ones that have more than ten chargers per 100 kilometers. Spain, on the other hand, appears in the queue with only 1.6 charging points every 100 kilometers, and less than 20% of these are fast charging.
The solution? Set a maximum date of 2024 for member countries to present their plans with the aim that this scenario is a reality in 2026. Or at least the one in which there is a charging point “easy to pay for, compatible with every car of any brand and with an affordable and comparable price” every 60 kilometers, while that the goal of having a hydrogen charging point every 100 kilometers -and not every 150 as previously proposed- be a reality in 2028 instead of 2031.
