Preparing Italy’s charging infrastructure for rapid vehicle electrification
To maintain the strong growth in the electric vehicle (EV) market in Italy since 2019, the country’s infrastructure for EV charging must also grow. In this Working Paper the authors estimate the number of home, workplace, public, and fast chargers needed in Italian urban and rural areas during 2021-2030. The authors reached several findings: 1) Continued growth is needed for all types of chargers; 2) Metropolitan areas require more workplace and public chargers, as well as fast chargers; 3) For EVs to reach a sales share of 68% of all vehicles by 2030, about 380,000 public and workplace chargers and 16,000 fast chargers are needed; 4) Metropolitan areas have just 9% of the charging needed by 2025 compared to 14% in small urban and rural areas; 5) Charging infrastructure will need to grow 50% per year until 2025 in cities and 38% per year in small urban and rural areas. These scenarios assume that strong growth in home charging will be needed, requiring government funding and support from utilities. More than 50% of EV owners will live in apartments by 2030, and special attention must be given to installing overnight charging at or near apartment buildings. The total cost estimate for chargers installed between 2021 and 2030 is €3.2 billion for non-home charging and €7.5 billion for home charging. But for each EV added, the marginal cost for non-home chargers needed to support that EV will decrease from €1,000 in 2021 to €400 in 2030. Costs of charging infrastructure will be high but will decline over time, due to increasing use of chargers outside the home, economies of scale at large charging installations, and reduction in hardware costs.
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Corporate Authors:
International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT)
1500 K Street NW, Suite 650
Washington, DC United States 20005 -
Authors:
- Nicholas, Michael
- Wappelhorst, Sandra
- Publication Date: 2022-3
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Appendices; Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 26p
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- Working Paper
- Issue Number: 2022-16
- Publisher: International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT)
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Costs; Electric vehicle charging; Electric vehicles; Forecasting; Infrastructure
- Geographic Terms: Italy
- Subject Areas: Energy; Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Vehicles and Equipment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01851032
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jul 5 2022 9:41AM