Belorusneft to roll out more than 100 EV charging stations by 2024

State-owned petroleum company Belorusneft is set to create an extensive electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure in Belarus by increasing the number of charging stations from 18 to more than 100 by 2024.

As early as late 2018, Belorusneft expects to install 100 charging stations at its petrol stations and other accessible locations, reports Belarusian Telegraph Agency.

“The car charging stations will be placed close to shopping centers, business centers, cultural and sport facilities to make car charging convenient for clients,” said Andrei Kotik, Belorusneft Deputy Director General for Construction, General Affairs, and Ideology.

More than 40 of them will be deployed in the country’s capital of Minsk, and by 2019 main highways will be equipped with EV charging facilities.

“With an extensive network of conventional refuelling stations of our own, we can use the petrol stations to offer electric car charging as a new service,” explained Kotik.

The electric vehicle infrastructure initiative follows a presidential decree that promotes the use of electric cars in the country.

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