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E-mobility with a popcorn effect
Last year, 33,366 purely electric cars were newly registered in Austria - that's double the number in 2020.
E-mobility with a popcorn effect
“We have the third-highest share of new electric car registrations in the EU, ahead of us are the Netherlands and Sweden,” says Andreas Reinhardt, Chairman of the Federal Association for Electromobility BEÖ. However, his role model is Norway: Here, two thirds of all new cars are battery-electric. "Three factors are crucial for a country ranking: How good is the charging infrastructure? What incentives are there? And does the market offer enough electric models?" says Reinhardt. After all, the expansion of the charging infrastructure has gained momentum: e-Control currently has 10,400 public charging points. Thanks to e-roaming, 6,250 of these charging points can be used in the BEÖ network.
In 2021 alone, the number of charging processes in Vienna more than doubled compared to the previous year. Over 310,000 charges were carried out at Wien Energie's public charging points; the previous year there were around 130,000 charging processes. In 2021, Austria's electric car drivers refueled with a total of 5,300,000 kilowatt hours of green electricity at Vienna's public charging stations - this corresponds to 28,000 climate-neutral car trips from Vienna to Bregenz and back. “Electromobility will become a booster for climate-friendly individual transport,” says Michael Strebl, Chairman of the Wien Energie Management Board. In 2021 alone, over 4,300 tons of CO2 were saved compared to cars with gasoline engines. "We will continue to expand the charging infrastructure in the future. Two fast-charging parks and a further 200 public e-charging points are planned," explains Strebl.