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Indonesia needs 31,000 charging stations to reach electric vehicle goals
Private and public players need to invest Rp 54.6 trillion (US$3.7 billion) to install 31,000 commercial charging stations over the course of 10 years.
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A Blue Bird driver operates the BYD electric car charger during the unveiling of the first electric taxi in Indonesia in Jakarta. Blue Bird Holding Group officially operates 25 BYD electric cars for Blue Bird and four Tesla Model X vehicles used by Silver Bird. (The Jakarta Post/Seto Wardhana)
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tate-owned electricity giant PLN estimates that Indonesia needs more than 31,000 new electric vehicle (EV) charging stations by 2030 to reach government goals.
Private and public players need to invest Rp 54.6 trillion (US$3.7 billion) to install 31,000 commercial charging stations over the course of 10 years, according to PLN's station development road map.
Over a third of the stations will be in Jakarta, while the rest in cities as far east as Makassar, South Sulawesi. Apart from at gas stations, such charging stations will be built at shopping malls, markets and apartment complexes, among other sites with sizable parking lots.
PLN technology vice president Zainal Arifin said on Tuesday, Sept. 1, that such stations mainly catered to commercial always-on-the-go vehicles such as taxis, buses and online motorcycle taxis. Personal vehicles could charge when parked at home.
In general, “the most effective way is charging overnight and so we can make that [night time] electricity cheaper,” he added at an online discussion about a new Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry regulation on EV charging stations.
PLN’s road map and the energy ministry’s regulation tick two more boxes on a checklist of regulations hoped to foster EV growth in Southeast Asia’s largest economy. The two documents build upon Presidential Regulation No. 55/2019 on EVs.
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