– It must be as easy to drive a green car as it is to drive a conventional car today. This means that you must avoid detours to charge your electric car.
– And with the proposal that we come up with, it is the assumption that you can avoid just that in 99.9 percent of all rides. This means that you will be able to charge your electric car immediately near a state road, says Benny Engelbrecht.
According to the Danish Road Directorate, the DKK 500 million will mean that more than 50 charging parks can be established with approximately 630 lightning charging stations distributed around the country.
– In order for us to cover the whole country, it is necessary to follow the Eldrup Commission’s recommendations that the state make co-investments.
Engelbrecht points out that the money will be felt by electric car owners on even the busiest days.
– If you go on a travel-intensive Friday – where there is absolutely the most pressure on the road system – then you will not experience waiting times that exceed 10 minutes anywhere in Denmark if you have to leave your car, he says.
The government recognizes that the car as a means of transport occupies an important place among the Danes who live outside the larger cities.
Here, the greater distances mean that other means of transport are not a real alternative. Therefore, the electric car must be made more attractive to them, the Minister of Transport believes.
– It is necessary to ensure that it will be just as easy to get to charge your car as it is if you drive on petrol or diesel. And there it must be said that the infrastructure is still lagging behind.
– If we leave it to the market alone, then there will be a risk that electric cars will become a metropolitan phenomenon, but that is not how it should be. That’s why we need an infrastructure that comes with it.
The proposal for half a billion kroner will be part of the infrastructure negotiations, which will be held later in the spring.
Source: The Nordic Page