Future-proof & user-centric: Making AFIR fit for 35 and beyond
On 23 November, ChargeUp Europe hosted a webinar on the ongoing trilogue negotiations on the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR). The webinar featured speakers from ChargeUp membership: Franco Barbieri (evway), Aaron Fishbone (GreenWay) and Tanya Sinclair (ChargePoint). The webinar was moderated by Lucie Mattera, the Secretary General of ChargeUp Europe. Broadly, the webinar examined the following topics:
Targets: the goal of targets should be to kickstart the market in places where it is most needed. Only with ambitious capacity-based targets we can prevent a two-speed Europe from developing and meet the EUs climate targets in time.
Roaming: the primary way that EV drivers charge out of network, both nationally and internationally – therefor AFIR must include roaming in its scope. Only with roaming we give the freedom of choice to the driver and that’s what we are all aiming for.
Retrofits: instead of focusing on rolling back by retrofitting perfectly functioning public AC chargers, we should be focusing on rolling out a lot more public EV charging infrastructure as rapidly as possible to meet the growing demand.
Grids: as grid connection timeline and complexity issues are the largest bottleneck CPOs across Europe face when it comes to rolling out more charging infrastructure. Addressing this key obstacle is crucial
Watch the full webinar below!