Gasgoo.com (Shanghai May 3) - Shenzhen will install five new electric vehicle charging stations before next year, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported today. The stations will be built in the Binhai New Area, located in the east of the city, the report stated. According the Shenzhen Urban Planning Land and Resources Commission (SUPLRC), the district will be responsible for leading the city's jump into the EV age, with a further ten stations planned to be built there by 2020.
Shenzhen jumped on to the EV bandwagon last year, establishing plans to erect a city-wide charging network by the end of 2012. The city also hopes to have 24,000 new energy public buses, government vehicles and private automobile on its road by that time. In order to accomplish this goal, the SUPLRC started researching the feasibility of using Binhai as a starting point for its EV project by as early as last October.
