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Sometimes story pitches are sent to my personal email address, and some are not at all appropriate. Recently, someone sent some nonsensical information about how the transition to electric vehicles from gas and diesel vehicles will take 100 years or more because installing public EV chargers takes too long. Such a view is both false and overly pessimistic.
For example, it was just announced that 2,926 new public EV chargers will be installed in Belgium in the next two years. Two years, not 20, not 200 — 2 years. That is well over 1,000 chargers per year.
At CleanTechnica, we don’t cover what happens with EVs in Belgium too frequently, but when I saw this story and remembered the false information sent to my inbox, I couldn’t resist pointing out that public EV chargers can be installed swiftly.
It looks like many of the new chargers in Belgium will be curbside and “Level 2,” which can deliver about 35 miles per hour of charging. Being able to charge right outside one’s own apartment or near a shopping and/or dining area while doing other activities is more convenient than having to drive to a gas station and stay with a vehicle to pump gas and then drive somewhere else.
Some EV charger installations are just for 4 chargers or 8, and these “little” ones might have been misinterpreted as representative of all new charger station projects. But the numbers are adding up fast, all around the world.
In one part of the UK, 10,000 public EV chargers have been planned for installation.
In Canada, about 8,000 new public chargers have been planned as well.
Going back to the “little” EV charger installations: if they are happening almost constantly and concurrently, the total number of EV chargers being installed is significant. To sum up, there are “little” ones, there are medium-sized ones, and sometimes there are thousands announced.
They are all newsworthy because together they make up the overall trend toward greater and greater public EV charging options, which in turn supports more EV adoption.
The EV transition is not only about the vehicles themselves; it includes EV charger infrastructure expansion.
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