Charger surge

Betty Henderson

SPAIN made the EU’s top five for the most public electric car chargers in an announcement made on Thursday, February 23. The announcement spells good news for the Spanish green energy transition which is gaining traction.

The data released in a report by the European Observatory for Combustible Fuels found that Spain has a total of 34,380 public electric car charging points.

The impressive figures place Spain in the top five Eu­ ropean countries for electric car chargers alongside electric vehicle heavyweight countries Germany and the Netherlands.

Experts have highlighted that Spain still has a long way to go however. The country has stated in its Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan its goal is to have more than 100,000 electric vehicle chargers by the end of 2023. Spain also has a relatively low volume of electric vehicles, accounting for just 9 per cent of all vehicles.

SPAIN’S pharmaceutical industry expanded by 53 per cent in foreign markets in 2022, making it the country’s third largest exporter according to a new report released by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism.

Data revealed that the industry recorded sales of €2.6 billion to foreign countries, making medicine the third most popular export from Spain. The transport industry accounted for the largest income from foreign sales, followed by the fuel and mineral industry, then the pharmaceutical industry.

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Although the data shows an improvement in access to electric chargers in Europe, there is still work to be done. Forty­two per cent of the European Union’s total chargers are in Germany and the Netherlands, an access gap that needs to be bridged.