14 DAY TRIAL // Parking facilities available in airports, hospitals, universities, gas stations and commercial parks will have to display chargers for electric vehicles, responding to the demand of a growing segment of buyers who have decided to buy a car with a minimum impact on air quality.
This strategy has been encouraged by governments all across the Globe, since the market of electric vehicles has significantly expanded within the past few years. As a result, EV chargers will be placed in public and semi-public parking facilities, reports Green Energy News.
In America, a bill introduced by the US Senator Greenstein implies that every shopping center should give up at least 5% of its overall parking space to make room for chargers.
In France, most of the architects are already familiar with this plan, since all the new apartment buildings will have to offer parking spaces equipped with chargers until 2012. Same initiative is now adopted by China, aiming to supply up to 20% of the total number of new public and community parking lots with green sources of power, as a part of the Electric Vehicle Development Plan that has to put forward visible results until 2020.
“Readily available charging locations will be critical, especially in the early years as consumers begin to drive electric vehicles. The parking industry is ready to step up and take on a major facilitating role in electric vehicle rollout,” declares Shawn Conrad, executive director of the International Parking Institute (IPI)
The new trend has a lot of potential and could become popular in the near future. Tsahi Merkur from Success Charging, known as the Israeli “king of parking spaces,” thinks he has found the key to success. In his opinion, increasing the availability of charging units can be correlated with the development of the entire industry of electric vehicles.
If electric cars can be recharged in almost every place its owner plans to stop, such a strategy would most likely attract even more customers, allowing them to associate their own image with an ample environmental movement.