With roughly 70 percent of Tokyo’s population living in apartments (or similar housing complexes), installing more chargers in buildings will be a crucial step in incentivizing their adoption. Japan has been slower than Europe, the U.S., and China to adopt electric vehicles, making the installation of infrastructure for them hard to agree to for buildings. Read: Installing EV Charging Infrastructure In Condos And Apartments Remains A Huge Challenge That’s a staggering 150-fold increase over the most recent figure of just 393 at the end of fiscal year 2021. Ultimately, the city aims to increase the number of chargers at apartments to 60,000 by 2030. In all, new buildings will have to offer charging at 20 percent of parking spaces.
Starting in 2025, Tokyo will become the first place in Japan to require that all new apartment towers feature EV chargers, reports Nikkei.
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