INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Range anxiety is a thing of the past for electric vehicle owners in the Chinese province of Guangdong
With 345,126 public chargers and 19,116 charging stations as of the end of September, Guangdong has the largest EV charging network in
China, one that has more than doubled from a year ago, according to the China Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Promotion Alliance
infrastructure swiftly enough to service new battery-powered cars
corridors in the US, while Germany has spent or pledged $6.4 billion to support the charging industry
But both the US and Europe have fallen well behind China in building out their networks
A BloombergNEF analysis counted 112,900 public chargers deployed across the US and 442,000 in Europe by the end of 2021, compared with 1.15
The government plans to build enough charging stations for 20 million electric vehicles by 2025, according to a January document by the
National Development and Reform Commission and nine other ministries.
These charging pylons are installed by third-party utility
A quarter of all new cars purchased in China are new-energy vehicles, and NEV sales are forecast to hit a record 6 million this year.
In
Guangdong, ubiquitous charging is also boosting electric car ownership
EV sales jumped 151% in the first half of the year, according to the Guangdong Bureau of Statistics
The province now has over 1.4 million electric vehicles, the highest share in the country, according to the National Monitoring and
Management platform for New-Energy Vehicles
One-in-eight electric cars sold in China is now made in Guangdong
From January to July, local EV production jumped more than two-fold from a year before
Strong production capabilities can have a spillover effect, improving customer experience and aftersales service and even lowering pricing
within the province, said Zhang.
Yoyo Gu, a 40-year-old housewife from Guangdong, traded in her Dongfeng Citroen C4 internal-combustion
recharged her SUV overnight at public charging stations in her neighborhood, before finally installing a private charging outlet in the
