Seoul Targets Installation Of 200 Thousands Of Public EV Charging In 2026

Seoul targets 200,000 public chargers in the next four years (photo: Pixabay)

JAKARTA - As an effort to support the transformation of electric vehicles, Seoul, the capital of South Korea plans to install more than 200,000 EV charging over the next four years.

Launching Fast Company via Green car Reports, most of Seoul's residents use subways and buses as a means of daily transportation. However, there are still 40 million cars and motorbikes registered there.

Therefore, Seoul officials want 400,000 of these vehicles to be electric by 2026. The official estimates that 140,000 chargers are needed to meet that goal.

However, they plan to install 220,000 charging stations to ensure that residents will never walk more than five minutes from one station to another.

Like other major cities, public charging infrastructure is essential for adoption in Seoul, as most residents live in apartment buildings without special rooms to install personal home chargers. While charging in the city center is quite expensive.

The Seoul solution is to install conventional chargers at gas stations and parking lots, as well as install chargers on building walls or street lights.

Seoul is said to have been quite successful in adding charging infrastructure in its territory. This has proven that public chargers in Seoul have increased, from 8,000 in 2020 to 20,000 in 2021.

Seoul also has a "green transportation zone", where the government limits access to the most pollutionous old vehicles, and the vehicle will be banned from operating in the city starting in 2025.

In 2035, Seoul plans to end registration for internal combustion cars, and wants to ban the entire community from driving them on city streets by 2050.