China Charging Alliance: Operation status of national electric vehicle charging and swapping infrastructure in February 2022

National Electric Vehicle Charging and Replacement in February 2022

Infrastructure operation status

1. Operation of public charging infrastructure: In February 2022, the number of public charging piles increased by 36,000 compared with January 2022, a year-on-year increase of 44.9%. As of February 2022, the member units of the alliance reported a total of 1.213 million public charging piles, including 496,000 DC charging piles, 717,000 AC charging piles, and 589 AC/DC integrated charging piles. From March 2021 to February 2022, the average monthly increase in public charging piles was about 31,000.

2. The operation of public charging infrastructure in provinces, regions and cities. The public charging infrastructure built in the top 10 regions of Guangdong, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Beijing, Zhejiang, Hubei, Shandong, Anhui, Henan and Sichuan accounts for 71.9%. The national charging power is mainly concentrated in Guangdong, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Hebei, Shanxi, Zhejiang, Anhui, Shanghai, Shaanxi, Shandong and other provinces and cities. The power flow is mainly to buses and passenger cars, and other types of vehicles such as sanitation logistics vehicles and taxis account for a small proportion. In February 2022, the total national charging power was about 1.18 billion kWh, a decrease of 70 million kWh from the previous month, a year-on-year increase of 73.0% and a month-on-month decrease of 5.7%.

3. Operation of public charging infrastructure operators. As of February 2022, there are 14 charging operators nationwide with more than 10,000 charging piles, including: Xingxing Charging with 270,000, Teladian with 264,000, State Grid with 196,000, Yunkuai Charging with 156,000, China Southern Power Grid with 41,000, Yiwi Energy with 36,000, Hui Charging with 29,000, Shenzhen Chedian with 26,000, SAIC Anyue with 24,000, Wanma Ai Charging with 21,000, China Putian with 20,000, Wancheng Wan Charging with 13,000, Hengtong Ding Charging with 11,000, and Weilan Kuai Charging with 11,000. These 14 operators account for 92.2% of the total, and the remaining operators account for 7.8% of the total.

4. Operation of vehicle-mounted charging facilities. As of February 2022, 381,000 data on reasons for not installing charging facilities on vehicles were collected. Among them, the three factors of group users building piles on their own, no fixed parking spaces at residence, and no cooperation from property management at residence were the main reasons for not installing charging facilities on vehicles, accounting for 48.6%, 10.3%, and 9.9% respectively, totaling 68.8%. The reasons of no fixed parking spaces at work, difficulty in registration, users choosing to charge at dedicated stations, and other reasons accounted for 31.2%.

5. Overall operation of charging infrastructure: From January to February 2022, the increase in charging infrastructure was 247,000 units, the increase in public charging infrastructure increased by 120.8% year-on-year, and the increase in on-board charging facilities continued to rise, up 282.1% year-on-year. As of February 2022, the cumulative number of charging infrastructure nationwide was 2.864 million units, an increase of 62.9% year-on-year.