Africa-Press – Cape verde. All Cape Verde islands should have public electric car chargers at the beginning of 2024, the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Energy, Alexandre Monteiro, announced today.
Cape Verde will have public chargers for electric cars on all islands in 2024
“We are going to implement a network of charging infrastructures across all the islands: there are around 40 stations ”, under the Trações Elétricas de Cabo Verde (TECV) concession, some with fast charging and the majority semi-fast, said the official according to Lusa .
These public posts will complement others from the private sector that have already started to appear in the archipelago.
“Today we are inaugurating the first public fast charging station in the country and it is a gradual process that will end at the beginning of next year: we will have [TECV] stations on all the islands”, detailed the minister, when connecting a vehicle to the new point freight station in the city of Praia, in the Quebra Canela beach square.
By the end of November, 12 more stations will be installed on the island of Santiago, the most populous in the archipelago.
According to the same source, by the end of the first quarter of 2024 there will be ten stations in São Vicente, eight in Sal, three in Boa Vista, two in Santo Antão and one on each of the islands of São Nicolau, Brava, Fogo and Maio.
Today’s inauguration is part of the push that the Government intends to give to the energy transition.
In July, the state initiative had already launched its first public station, on the island of Sal, but with lower capacity, without the fast charging function currently open.
According to Alexandre Monteiro, there are already around 200 electric cars in the country of half a million inhabitants and the objective is to follow the new mobility trend, at the same time that Cape Verde implements a plan to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.
He announced that the Government intends that, by 2025, 30% of electricity on the grid will come from renewable sources and that this percentage will rise to 50% by 2030.
The stations, Lusa continues, are imported as part of an investment by the Government of Cape Verde with support from the Mitigation Action Facility mechanism and technical assistance from German cooperation, and are then delivered to the company Trações Elétricas de Cabo Verde (TECV), which holds the concession for seven years. network implementation and management.
Today’s post, for example, cost around three million Cape Verdean escudos (around 27 thousand euros), said Damià Pujol, director of TECV.
The acronym TECV is also the name of the application available on mobile platforms to access stations, manage and pay for charging.
Based on the aforementioned source, the price indexed to the concession is 40 escudos (36 cents) for each kilowatt-hour, indexed to the price of electricity, explained the director of TECV.
In 2019, the Cape Verdean Government approved the Electric Mobility Policy Charter, which establishes the objective of gradually replacing all vehicles powered by thermal engines with electric engines by 2050, recalls Lusa.
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