Volkswagen is safe: charging the electric car will be free in the future
Volkswagen is safe
Volkswagen has officially entered the electric mobility market a few months ago, and is starting to flex its muscles: a couple of days ago the Volkswagen Group Power Day took place - of which we report the entire live in the video at the bottom to the news - during which the Wolfsburg giant stated that it wanted to become a real link between the world of mobility and that of energy, creating collaborations with the largest energy suppliers in the world in order to facilitate the spread of mobility and the necessary infrastructure.Volkswagen's intentions translate into two fundamental commitments: the first is the promise to halve the costs of battery production by 2030, so as to be able to offer on the car market electricity at affordable prices to most people, and the second is precisely related to the charging infrastructure - one of the main factors that is slowing down the diffu sion of electric cars. Indeed, according to Volkswagen's plan, there could be a point in the future in which recharging the electric car at the columns will be completely free: to achieve this goal, which today seems truly utopian, a very careful management of the network will be required. and the evolution that it will have to undergo, as well as obviously the need to focus on the development of renewable energy sources.
In concrete terms, Volkswagen's plan is relatively simple: from today, until 2025, the group intends to build and manage 18,000 Fast and UltraFast charging points in Europe, a truly ambitious figure considering that today there are less than 1/5 of those columns across the old continent. By doing so, Volkswagen will be able to meet - according to forecasts - the need for energy to recharge 1/3 of electric cars on the continent.
This plan will be implemented in collaboration with the major energy suppliers of European countries, such as Enel in Italy - as already seen in the case of the electric car service station born in Rome - Iberdrola in Spain and BP in the Kingdom United. The plan also includes expansion in the United States, in collaboration with Electrify America, and in China, where 17,000 charging stations are expected to be built by 2025 thanks to the collaboration with CAMS.
Starting in 2022, Volkswagen will update all its electric cars so as to make them compatible with the vehicle-to-grid system that allows the car to exchange electricity with the grid, a crucial aspect for having an efficient and low-cost grid.
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