Efficient EV station operation to receive subsidies

Subsidies will no longer be easily available for electric vehicle charging infrastructure makers as the government has decided to extend funds to those that are commercially viable and able to guarantee a minimum usage, experts said.

The government's changed approach was needed to check the misuse of subsidies by companies in the past as many of them had set up EV charging stations in remote areas due to low land prices where there is less need for EV charging, and to guarantee proper management of current EV charging stations.

Data from the China Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Promotion Alliance show by this April, the utilization rate for charging piles was lower than 15 percent on average across the country. Many EV charging stations, because they are not busy, have even been treated as free parking lots by car owners.