As the pace of the Spring Festival is getting closer and closer, the tide of the Spring Festival is also coming as scheduled. On the highway, there is a lot of traffic, including new energy vehicles. These representatives of green travel, during the busy Spring Festival, also brought a "charging tide".
Do you know? From the beginning of the Spring Festival to February 5, in just 11 days, the charging capacity of new energy vehicles in the expressway service area reached an astonishing 3408910,000 kWh, and the number of charges is also as high as 151940,000 times. Compared to last year, the number of charges and the number of charges increased by 6706% and 4842%。Behind this figure is the strong performance of new energy vehicles during the Spring Festival, and it is also a strong proof that the concept of green travel is gradually gaining popularity.
In this year's Spring Festival, the peak hour of the highway busyness index reached 30%-40%, which means that three to four percent of the charging stations on the highway are in a state of full load. In normal times, this is only about 10% busy. The "charging tide" brought about by this "travel tide" makes highway charging facilities particularly important during the Spring Festival.
In response to this surge in charging demand, power supply authorities everywhere have also taken action. In Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, the power supply department has renovated 7 service areas and 14 charging stations in the jurisdiction, and equipped mobile charging vehicles. The Qinhu service area on the Yanjing Expressway is specially equipped with a 120kw mobile charging vehicle, which can provide uninterrupted charging services for 4 electric vehicles at the same time.
In Tianjin, the power department has also opened emergency charging pods in expressway service areas and upgraded charging facilities at 46 busy high-speed charging stations. After the renovation of the charging facilities, the average charging time has been shortened by nearly 30%, making it more convenient and efficient for new energy vehicle owners to charge during the Spring Festival.
Behind all this, it is inseparable from the country's attention and promotion of the construction of charging infrastructure along the highway. As early as 2022, the Ministry of Transport, the National Energy Administration, and the State Grid of China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd. jointly issued the "Action Plan for Accelerating the Construction of Charging Infrastructure along Highways". The plan clearly requires strengthening the construction of charging infrastructure in highway service areas to ensure that the service areas with large traffic during major holidays can make emergency plans in advance, and appropriately put mobile charging infrastructure to meet the charging needs during peak hours.
Nowadays, with the widespread use of new energy vehicles during the Spring Festival, the "charging tide" brought by the "travel tide" has become a phenomenon that cannot be ignored. The active response of local power supply departments and the policy support of the state also let us see the bright future of green travel during the Spring Festival. It is believed that in the near future, new energy vehicles will become the mainstream choice for the Spring Festival, and our roads will become more environmentally friendly, energy-saving and efficient.