ChinaChina ended July with 23.683 million charge points, 626,000 more than a month earlier. The year-on-year figure is 41.9 percent, and the network has now roughly doubled in under two years.
The split is where the story is.
| End of June | End of July | Added | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public | 5.009M | 5.099M | +90,000 |
| Private | 18.048M | 18.584M | +536,000 |
| Total | 23.057M | 23.683M | +626,000 |
Six of every seven points added in July were private, installed at a home or a workplace. Public charging grew 21.3 percent over the year against 48.8 percent for private, and private hardware is now 79 percent of everything counted.
What that means for a driver
A headline count of 23.7 million describes the country’s charging capacity in a way that barely touches the experience of finding a charger away from home. The public network is 5.1 million points with a combined rated capacity of about 255 GW, which works out at roughly 50 kW per point, up from 247 GW and 49.35 kW at the end of June. The average is being pulled up slowly as new public installations skew towards DC.
The demand side
CAAM counted 1.56 million new-energy vehicles sold in July, more than 60 percent of new car sales for the first time, and 9.007 million over January to July for a cumulative 51.2 percent of the market. A separate set of figures from CPCA, which measures retail rather than wholesale, put July’s NEV share at a record 64.4 percent, and noted that the record owed as much to combustion sales collapsing as to NEV sales rising.
The monthly additions have not been broken down by province or by charging standard.
Source: National Energy Administration, via Xinhua Xinhua
