China adds about 1.301 million charging piles in first half of 2022, up 388.2% YoY

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- By the end of June 2022, there had been 3.918 million charging piles deployed across China, up 101.2% from the same period of last year, according to the China Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Promotion Alliance (EVCIPA).

For the first six months of 2022, around 1.301 million charging piles (+388.2% YoY) were newly built in the country, including 381,000 public piles (+228.4% YoY) and 920,000 private ones (+511.3% YoY).

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Last month, around 108,000 public charging piles were newly deployed in China, representing a 65.5% year-on-year leap.

As of June 2022, the volume of public charging piles in China had added up to 1.528 million units, including 665,000 DC piles, 863,000 AC piles, and 472 DC-AC integrated charging piles, the EVCIPA reported after summarizing the data provided by members of the alliance.

There were around 50,000 public charging piles built per month on average within the year ended June 2022.

In terms of the volume of charging stations by June 2022, the top 10 provinces or direct-administered municipalities remained the same as that of the previous month. Guangdong held a significant lead by building 17,871 stations across the province, while both Jiangsu and Zhejiang have over 7,000 charging constructed.

Regarding the amount of charging stations by June 2022, the ranking of the top eight operators was the same as that of the month-ago period. TELD ranked highest by deploying 19,698 charging stations, followed by Station Grid (16,036) and Start Charge (10,971).

As of June 2022, China had owned a total of 1,582 battery swap stations, 63 of which were newly built last month. By the volume of battery swap stations as of June, the top five provinces or direct-administered municipalities in China accounted for 56% of the country's total volume.