英国电动汽车充电桩安装强势回归

据电力新闻2020年7月27日伦敦报道，英国电动汽车（EV）充电桩公司Pod Point洞察力主管詹姆斯· 梅克迈7月27日告诉记者，Pod Point最近几个月EV充电桩销售强势回归，正在收复早期封锁期间的失地。

Pod Point最近刚刚完成了在200个乐购停车场内安装充电桩的工作，同时与大众汽车公司一起推出了600个充电桩的安装计划。在4月和5月的禁售期受到严重影响以后，Pod Point目前的家庭充电桩安装水平已恢复到了疫情爆发前的水平。

梅克迈说：“在封锁之前，我们曾处于一个强劲增长的阶段，而它现在似乎在很大程度上正在强势回归。”

虽然由于在家办公模式和客流量减少，工作场所和零售充电增长前景不确定，但梅克迈仍持乐观态度。

梅克迈说：“我们不知道封锁所带来的环境改善的意识能在多大程度上延续到复苏，但我们正进入一个持续的经济困难时期，所以决策需要是长期和合理的。没有人会建议投资柴油乘用车。”而沃尔沃首席执行官一直直言不讳地相信充电桩安装将会加速。

李峻 编译自 电力新闻

原文如下：

UK EV charge point installation 'coming back strong' after lockdown: Pod Point

UK electric vehicle charger company Pod Point has seen strong sales in recent months and is recovering ground lost during the early lockdown, the company's Head of Insights James McKemey told July 27.

The company has just completed installing chargers across 200 Tesco car parks as it rolls out a 600-site program with Volkswagen, and is now back to pre-Covid levels of monthly home charger installations after a lockdown-affected April and May.

"We were in a phase of strong growth pre-lockdown, and it seems largely to be returning," McKemey said.

While the outlook was uncertain for workplace and retail charging growth due to work-from-home patterns and reduced footfall, McKemey remained positive.

"We don't know how much awareness of environmental improvement due to lockdown will carry over into a recovery, but we're heading into a sustained period of economic difficulty, so decisions need to be long-term and sound. Nobody is going to advise investment in diesel passenger cars, and the CEO of Volvo has been forthright in his belief that electrification will accelerate," he said.