Hainan targets to install 40,000 electric vehicle charging points in 2019

As part of new-energy vehicles (NEVs) promotion, Hainan province in China has reportedly targeted to install 40,000 electric vehicle charging points in 2019.

By 2020, the number of charging points in Heinan will thus increase to 85,000, with the ratio of NEVs and charging piles below 3:1.

The province targets that it will have a total charging points of 337,000 by 2025 while by 2030 940,000. The province also aims to lower the ratio of NEVs and charging points to 1:1 by 2030.

Hainan had more than 4,600 charging points and four charging stations as of the end of 2018.

According to the Hainan Clean Energy Vehicle Development Plan released on March, Hainan has vowed to phase out fossil fuel vehicles by 2030 as an effort to speed up NEVs growth.

As of February 2019, China as a whole had 866,000 public and private charging points, up 76.8 per cent from the same period last year, as the China Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Promotion Alliance data showed on Monday, March 11.

In February, those charging points provided some 312 million kWh of electricity to electric vehicles.