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The expansion of the electric vehicle continues to gain strength in Spain, although the lack of recharging infrastructure is the main impediment to growth in the number of zero-emission cars within the fleet. According to data from the Manufacturers Association ANFAC, electric vehicles accumulate every 10 sales in the first quarter of 2022.
Although these figures are positive, the association warns of the need to accelerate the pace of electrification in order to achieve the emission reduction targets set by the PNIEC in 2022. According to José López-Tafall, director general of ANFAC, "the sector continues to push with a wide range of vehicles, but it is very necessary to generate a context of greater certainty for the user by promoting recharging infrastructures, greater efficiency of aid plans and a favorable tax framework that makes the electrified vehicle a first purchase option «.
To solve this problem, after the approval of Royal Decree-Law 29/2021 for the promotion of Electric Mobility, the Government establishes the obligation to install public access electric vehicle battery recharging points before January 1, 2023.
“With this new norm, the idea of the Executive is to accelerate sustainable mobility policies and that in less than seven months the network of charging points for electrified vehicles will grow to 100.000 plugs, a state that is presented not only at gas stations or service stations, but in all kinds of locations and some public buildings”, confirms Eduardo Clavijo, general director of Idoneo.com.
The measure, details the expert, includes a series of “tax benefits” for companies that install this infrastructure: ) and the exemption of up to 90% of works taxes related to the installation of recharging points”.
In the first place, within the spaces that must have recharging points, private non-residential buildings stand out. In this case, those who have a parking lot with more than 20 spaces must have a mandatory charging station for every 40 spaces or fraction thereof.
"This category includes not only work centers, offices or factories, but also supermarkets, shopping centers, hotels, restaurants, hospitals, entertainment or leisure centers and educational centers such as schools and universities," adds Clavijo.
For its part, with regard to the buildings of the General State Administration, the requirement will be even greater, with the obligation to install a recharging point for every 20 spaces, or fraction, when said car park has up to 500 spaces.
Likewise, the Association of Vehicle Manufacturers (Anfac) has defended the need to accelerate the pace of vehicle electrification, which at the moment "is far from what is necessary" to achieve the objectives set by Brussels. According to the association, the automotive sector has a "full commitment" to decarbonization and promises to meet the agreed demands.
Last Tuesday, the European Council approved increasing the emission reduction requirement to 55% in 2030 and advancing the ban on the purchase of combustion vehicles by 5 years, in 2035.
However, in line with the European Association of Automobile Manufacturers (ACEA), he has pointed out that the new objectives must be accompanied by new tools at the same level of demand, "if compliance is to be possible".
From ANFAC they plant different measures to accelerate the rate of penetration of electrified vehicles, such as a tax system that positively supports decarbonization and focuses on taxing the use, not the purchase, and a reform of the demand aid aircraft to make them more effective. From this association it believes that it is "essential" to increase the use of charging points, so it is necessary that the AFIR regulation proposal for charging points collect "the same level of ambition in the tools to make a rapid, efficient and logical in each member state”.
