China deploys 4.708 million EV charging piles by Oct. 2022

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- By the end of Oct. 2022, there had been 4.708 million charging piles deployed across China, up 109% compared to the cumulative volume reached by the same period of last year, according to the China Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Promotion Alliance (EVCIPA).

For the first ten months of 2022, around 2.091 million charging piles (+265.5% YoY) were newly built in the country, including 533,000 public piles (+109% YoY) and 1.558 million private ones (+391.4% YoY).

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Last month, around 44,000 public charging piles were newly deployed in China, representing a 58.1% year-on-year leap.

As of Oct. 2022, the volume of public charging piles in China had added up to 1.68 million units, including 710,000 DC piles and 970,000 AC piles, the EVCIPA reported after summarizing the data provided by members of the alliance.

There were around 51,000 public charging piles built per month on average within a year ended Oct. 2022.

In terms of the charging station volume by Oct. 2022, the top 10 provinces or direct-administered municipalities hold a total of 69,820 stations. Guangdong took a significant lead by building over 18,000 charging stations across the province, while both Jiangsu and Zhejiang had over 8,000 stations deployed.

Regarding the amount of charging stations by Oct. 2022, the top three operators were still TELD, State Grid, and Star Charge. TELD ranked highest as the only operator to own over 20,000 charging stations.

As of Oct. 2022, China had deployed a total of 1,827 battery swap stations, 65 of which were newly built last month.

Regarding the volume of battery swap stations as of Oct., the top five provinces or direct-administered municipalities in China accounted for 55.39% of the country's total volume.