In a reply to a LegCo question today (14), the Secretary for the Environment and Ecology, Tse Chin-wan, said that as of March this year, nearly 100,000 parking spaces in Hong Kong were equipped with charging infrastructure. There are 11,180 public charging facilities, of which about 2,000 are fast and high-speed charging facilities. The government will continue to adopt a multi-pronged approach to increase the number of charging facilities, including converting conventional petrol filling stations into high-speed charging stations or installing high-speed charging facilities.
Tse said that the 2022 Policy Address proposed to provide charging facilities at an additional 7,000 parking spaces in government buildings. As of March 2025, the installation of 4,158 charging piles has been completed, of which 27 are medium- or high-speed charging piles. Relevant departments have reviewed the progress of the remaining works, and the target can be achieved by the end of this year.
Tse pointed out that as of the end of April 2025, the EV-charging at Home Subsidy Scheme has completed the installation of EV charging infrastructure at 42,020 parking spaces, and it is expected that the number of parking spaces with installation works completed by the end of this year will increase to about 77,000, and the scheme will be able to complete the installation of EV charging infrastructure for about 140,000 existing parking spaces in private residential buildings or parking lots of residential estates at the end of the 2027-28 financial year.
He further pointed out that the government announced in last year's Policy Address that it will invest HK$300 million to launch the high-speed charging incentive scheme, with a target of providing 3,000 high-speed charging piles to support an additional 160,000 EVs, and it is expected that all the high-speed charging piles can be put into service from 2026 to the end of 2028 one after another. The government is now finalizing the implementation details of the scheme, which is expected to be launched next month and start accepting applications.
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