Last year, the number of electric cars on Swedish roads increased by 45 percent, and an estimated 100,000 new electric cars will find Swedish owners in 2022. This development requires public charging points - and Sweden is lagging behind in this area. This is reported by di.se, referring to figures from the industry organizations Bil Sweden and the European Automobile Manufacturers Association.
According to EU recommendations, there should be one public charging point per ten rechargeable cars, and another recommendation is that they should be located every ten miles along major roads. Today, Sweden has not reached closer than one charging point per 20 rechargeable cars.
A contributing factor is that decision-making processes are not in sync with what is required to switch to green modes of transport, as suggested in the article from DI.
– The reason we have fallen behind is not due to a lack of public funding, but rather to shortcomings in the bureaucratic processes, says Mattias Bergman at Bil Sweden to DI.
Government plans to release new strategy
In addition, the problem is highlighted that landowners are raising prices along motorways as a result of the objective of one charging point every ten miles.
However, there are good financial opportunities for companies to install charging stations, including through investment support.
Today, both the Swedish Transport Administration and the Parliament are working to find solutions that make it easier to develop the country's public charging infrastructure - both at the grid companies and among the country's municipalities and regions. The government will also soon present an electrification strategy to address the challenges.
– We have ongoing investigations for many different infrastructures. In the investigations, we examine and look at different solutions to simplify and make it smoother. What we in Parliament can do above all is to take a closer look at the Environmental Code, and also at how we can cooperate better nationally with different authorities, says Monica Haider (S), member of the Committee on Industry and Trade, to DI.
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