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A file photo of an electric car charging station in Beijing. [Photo: chinanews.com] |
Local authorities in Beijing have announced a new pricing scheme for the network of public charging stations for electric vehicles that will take effect from June 1.
The Beijing Municipal Commission of Development and Reform has released specific charging policies for electricity usage and service fees, China National Radio reports.
Under this new pricing scheme, the upper-limit for electricity charges per kilowatt hour has been set at fifteen percent of the maximum retail price per liter of No. 92 Petrol in Beijing. Electric car charging companies or stations could fix their respective price standards, within this range.
The average cost to operate an electric car is estimated to be about fifty to sixty percent of the fuel cost of an equivalent non-electric vehicle.
Gao Peng, Deputy Director of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Development and Reform says that the new public charging devices that work on a fast-charging mode could only serve as an alternative to the private slow-charging poles.
The report says that Beijing plans to complete the construction of 2,000 public electric car charging poles within the sixth ring roads by the end of 2015. In the meantime, charging devices would also be installed on highways connecting Beijing to neighboring cities in Tianjin and Hebei, as well as on the Beijing-Harbin Express Way and the Beijing-Tibet Express Way.
So far, Beijing has already installed electric car charging devices in service zones on eighteen expressways.
