CCTV News:Today (July 31), the Ministry of Transport held a press conference to introduce that the 20 millionth new energy vehicle in China has recently rolled off the assembly line, and the Ministry of Transport is accelerating the construction of new energy charging infrastructure on highways.
According to the latest data from the Ministry of Transport, as of the end of June this year, there were 5,931 expressway service areas in China, accounting for 89.48% of the total number of expressway service areas (6,628), and the cumulative number of charging piles was 18,590, covering 29,000 parking spaces for minibuses, and about 27,000 parking spaces were reserved for construction and installation, and nearly 90% of expressway service areas covered charging facilities. Among them, the coverage rate of expressway charging infrastructure in 17 provinces such as Beijing, Hebei and Liaoning exceeded 90%. There are 5128 charging parking spaces in expressway service areas in China, accounting for more than 10% of the total parking spaces of passenger cars, and the charging infrastructure network in expressway service areas is improving day by day.
Guo Sheng, Deputy Director of Highway Bureau of Ministry of Transport:Judging from the operation guarantee of major holidays such as the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, May Day and Dragon Boat Festival this year, the phenomenon of charging queuing in service areas in various places has been significantly improved, and there has been no serious queuing phenomenon, and the problem of "mileage anxiety" of electric vehicles has been alleviated to some extent.
Guo Sheng said that due to information asymmetry, the public can not effectively know the charging infrastructure settings and real-time use, resulting in different charging facilities in different service areas. In this regard, the Ministry of Transport and the National Energy Administration have deployed various localities to carry out pre-judgment of travel and charging demand, formulate holiday charging service guarantee schemes, issue green travel charging strategies, deploy mobile emergency charging equipment, and timely release traffic flow and charging queuing in service areas.
Guo Sheng, Deputy Director of Highway Bureau of Ministry of Transport:Our Ministry has listed the "random inspection" service of expressway charging infrastructure as the fact that transportation is closer to people’s livelihood this year. It is planned to guide the public to reasonably choose charging places by providing real-time status inquiry service of charging infrastructure in expressway service areas, promote the full utilization of charging facilities, and further enhance the guarantee capacity of expressway charging services.
Guo Sheng introduced that the Ministry of Transport will work with multiple departments to comprehensively strengthen the construction of charging infrastructure in residential communities, enterprises and institutions, tourist attractions, public parking lots and other links and scenarios, and form a reasonable, scientific and efficient charging infrastructure system in the whole society to meet the charging service needs of vehicles during the whole journey.
Guo Sheng, Deputy Director of Highway Bureau of Ministry of Transport:In the next step, focusing on the charging facilities in the expressway service area, according to the principle of "moderately ahead", we will further optimize and improve the charging infrastructure network along the highway, and strive to form a charging infrastructure network with "fixed facilities as the main body, mobile facilities as the supplement, full coverage of important nodes, good operation and maintenance services, and guaranteed travel for the masses".