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Thursday, October 13th, 2016

Plans for an electric car charging point in every new home in Europe

Author:     Arthur Neslen
Source:     The Guardian (U.K.)
Publication Date:     11 October 2016 05.30 EDT
 Link: Plans for an electric car charging point in every new home in Europe
Stephan:   The key to electric cars is electric car chargers. Yesterday I ran a piece on Germany moving to make petroleum vehicles illegal after 2030 - 14 years into the future. And now there is this. The net-net of this I think is that within 20 years all of Europe will be free of dependency on petroleum powered vehicles while the U.S. as with so many infrastructure issues will fall into second class status.
Norway and the Netherlands have both announced plans to completely phase out vehicles with diesel engines by 2025. Credit: Pawel Libera/LightRocke

Norway and the Netherlands have both announced plans to completely phase out vehicles with diesel engines by 2025.
Credit: Pawel Libera/LightRocke

Every new or refurbished house in Europe will need to be equipped with an electric vehicle recharging point, under a draft EU directive expected to come into effect by 2019.

In a further boost to prospects for the electric car market in Europe, the regulations due to be published before the end of the year state that by 2023, 10% of parking spaces in new buildings in the EU zone will also need recharging facilities.

The EU initiative is intended to lay the infrastructure for the sort of electric car boom envisaged by Norway and the Netherlands, which both plan to completely phase out vehicles with diesel engines by 2025.

As well as extending the driving range […]

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