By the end of Sept. 2021, there were 2.223 million charging piles across China, up 56.8% from the same period last year, according to the China Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Promotion Alliance (EVCIPA).
For the first three quarters of 2021, a total of 542,000 EV charging piles (+172.2% YoY) were newly built in China, including 237,000 public piles (+164.5% YoY) and 305,000 private ones (+178.5% YoY).
The cumulative number of public charging piles in the country amounted to 1.044 million by the end of Sept. 2021, including 428,000 DC piles, 616,000 AC piles, and 414 DC-AC integrated charging piles, the EVCIPA said after compiling the data reported by members of the alliance. There were around 36,500 public charging poles newly deployed per month on average between Oct. 2020 and Sept. 2021.