Electric vehicles: Could improved charging stations increase demand for EVs?

The European Commission aims to have 3.5 million charging points by 2030.

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00:00We have to have the infrastructure and it's the chicken and the egg discussion we've had

00:19it for five, ten years.

00:22Do we build out the infrastructure or do we wait for the demand to come from the cars

00:26first?

00:27I think the easy answer for that is just we need both.

00:30We need both in that and I think we're coming to a point where we find that equilibrium

00:35now.

00:41I think they're going to be critical because without charging the cars won't run.

00:46So it's going to be ease of access, ease of use, availability so charge points are needed

00:52in private and public places throughout.

01:05So we have gone a little bit from there is a charger here and there to a trend where

01:12we see there are big sites with many fast chargers, high quality chargers by the highways.

01:18Chargers build outs will continue but you will see it growing with the gas station

01:23brands.

01:24You will see the chargers popping up there because that's a consumer behavior that we

01:30already have and we're so used to it.

01:33So that's where I see it growing more and more.