Tokyo wants 150 times as many EV chargers at apartments in 2030

Residential charging seen as key to Japanese capital's electrification goal

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The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is pushing for the installation of electric vehicle charging stations at condo parking lots. (Photo by Naoyuki Kozuki)

NAOYUKI KOZUKI, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Japan's capital will more than double certain subsidies for residential electrical-vehicle chargers next year as part of an effort to increase the number available at apartment buildings 150-fold in less than a decade, albeit from a low base.

New apartment towers will also be required to have EV chargers starting in fiscal 2025 -- the first such mandate anywhere in Japan.

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