There are several changes that 2023 brings as far as the automotive industry is concerned. The obligation to create Low Emission Zones (ZBE) in all cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants will mean novelties for those who drive cars with the B and C environmental badge. This, a priori, should boost sales of Zero Emissions, but the car Electric has a new problem…
In addition to the Climate Change Law, next year the Royal Decree that tries to promote public recharging infrastructures comes into force. In accordance with this regulation, all non-residential public buildings with more than 20 parking spaces must install at least one charger for electric cars for every 20 spaces.
This obligation includes shopping and leisure centers, restaurants… as well as Public Administration buildings.
The problem is that, as they have announced before Congress, the shopping centers are not going to do their part.
Charging points in shopping centers
In Spain, according to data from the Association of Commercial Space Owners (APRESCO), there are more than 860,000 parking spaces throughout the national territory integrated into shopping centers. This means that shopping centers should have more than 16,000 charging points before January 1, 2023.
“Taking into account that the total number of public chargers in operation in Spain at the end of 2022 is 16,500, the standard implies that our sector must install in a single year a number of points equivalent to all those currently existing in the country. ”, has defended Ángel Del Monte, president of APRESCO.
“The deadline established by the Government, January 1, 2023, is technically and materially impossible to meet,” adds Del Monte.
Before the deputies, the spokesman for the commercials blamed the bureaucracy for the delay: “there are important technical and administrative bottlenecks that mean that the current deadlines for the installation of the required charging points are at least 15 months at best of the scenarios and rise above 30 months in many cases”.
It is for this reason that it has requested a two-year moratorium, until January 1, 2025, to increase the presence of chargers in its parking lots.
