6.6.2019. Volkswagen aims to achieve a rapid breakthrough of E-mobility and increasingly this also includes efforts in the area of charging infrastructure. In Europe, the group builds up to 2025, a total of 36,000 charging points, 11,000 of the Volkswagen brand.
They are installed on the Volkswagen locations – and the approximately 3,000 Volkswagen dealers in all major cities. With the subsidiary for charging infrastructure Elli (Electric Life), and the load service “We Charge” occupied, Volkswagen is also more lucrative fields of business around the topic. In total, the group invested approximately 250 million euros in the Expansion of the charging infrastructure on the European sites. At the same time, the company calls for more fast and effective measures for more charging stations in Germany.
“The charging infrastructure is becoming more and more the decisive factor for the rapid breakthrough of E-mobility in Germany. The Charging of E-cars must be as simple and self-evident as the Loading of a smartphone. For this we need much more charging pillars in public space, as well as simple rules for the Installation of private wall boxes. Volkswagen wants to set a sign and to be involved at all levels for the development of the charging infrastructure,“ says Thomas Ulbrich, Board of management for E-mobility at the Volkswagen brand.
Volkswagen ID.3 (Photo: Volkswagen)
Construction of the infrastructure in all usage scenarios
According to Volkswagen estimates, in the future, around 70 percent of all load operations are to take place at home or in the workplace. To meet this need, the Volkswagen subsidiary Elli from 2020 full load will offer solutions for businesses and private customers – of the affordable Wallbox, including the Installation, up to the matching green electricity. The Volkswagen locations, the brand is building a nationwide total of some 4,000 charging points for employees, many of which are freely available to be be.
Around a quarter of all loading operations will be done at public charging stations. Customers can have access with the Volkswagen Service “We Charge” in the future, to more than 100,000 charging points across Europe – in perspective, it should be up to 150,000 charging points. Plan are also in partnerships with retail chains, so that customers can charge their cars comfortably while shopping. Tesco in the UK has made a start, with other retailers to follow chains.
So, for the Load on long journeys on motorways, Volkswagen has created essential conditions: the models of The ID. Family offer large working ranges and load are able to quickly. ID.3 can download with the 100 to 125 kW on a fast charging station. Together with industry partners, Volkswagen is also based under the umbrella of IONITY by 2020 in Europe 400 fast charging stations with up to 2,400 charging points on roads and highways.
In addition, Volkswagen brings fast-charging infrastructure is now in the cities. The first of the 28 fast-charging stations off the highway are already to go at the end of June in Wolfsburg in operation. They are part of a gift of the Volkswagen AG, to the 80-anniversary of the city of Wolfsburg.
Stronger commitment by the policy asked
The Expansion of the charging infrastructure needs to be accelerated in the coming months in total, but still significantly. In Germany alone, it should be according to the coalition agreement until 2020, more than 100,000 additional public charging points. Of which a fraction exists in the first place. Is Convinced that Volkswagen is also a stronger commitment to the policy is required here. The necessary conditions for a rapid Expansion of the infrastructure must be rapidly created, for example through adjustments in the rental and construction or the extension of the support measures on charging infrastructure in both the public and managed Park space.
“The E-mobility in Germany has the potential to be a real success story. If the economy and politics join forces, we can overcome the challenges of the charging infrastructure very quickly – just as we are logically driven process of structural change in our industry wants to create the techno together,“ says E-mobility-the management Board Thomas Ulbrich. “Germany needs a master plan for E-mobility.”
ID.3 and the fast-charging column of IONITY (photo: Volkswagen AG)
