E-mobility is expected to make significant progress in the coming years. That is the declared goal of politics. What about the charging infrastructure for e-cars?
Magdeburg (dpa/sa) - The subsidies for publicly accessible e-charging stations in Saxony-Anhalt have not been fully exhausted. For this year, 37 applications for 135 charging stations to be set up were received, the Ministry for Infrastructure and Digital said on request. There is also a charging station that needs to be modernized. A total of 1.445 million euros in funding has been requested for this. The state will provide 1.5 million euros annually until 2025.
According to a ministry spokesman, 11 applications were made by energy suppliers, 21 by companies and 4 by municipalities. One application came from a private person. The application period for this year ended in mid-November. So far, according to the information, no applications have been approved or rejected. All applications that meet the funding requirements could be approved.
The Minister for Infrastructure and Digital Affairs, Lydia Hüskens (FDP), recently explained: "Electric mobility is an important building block in achieving climate protection goals and ensuring individual mobility. We therefore see our task in terms of e-mobility in public funding accessible charging infrastructure."
The country has made it its goal that the route to the next charging point should take no more than 15 minutes. The ministry cannot say how many charging points there are in total so far. Most are privately or privately operated and are not recorded centrally. As of September 1 of this year, the number of publicly accessible charging points in Saxony-Anhalt was 1174.
According to ADAC, around 80 percent of the charging points installed to date are in private areas. "The need is therefore covered privately in many places in the country and not via a public charging point," it said. "We welcome the expansion of e-charging options, so that more and more people are able to switch to an electric vehicle. However, subsidies should not be limited exclusively to public spaces, but should also give greater consideration to private property, analogous to federal subsidies." According to the ADAC, this could also be a subsidy for non-public charging stations on company premises, which then give employees the opportunity to recharge their batteries at work. That would help many people switch to e-mobility.
