China's EV charging points top 24 million

(ECNS) -- China had 24.777 million electric vehicle charging points at the end of September, up 37.2% from a year earlier, the National Energy Administration said Thursday.

Of the total, 5.207 million were public charging points, up 16.3% from a year earlier, with a combined rated power of 266 million kilowatts.

Private charging points totaled 19.57 million, up 44%. The electricity capacity registered for private charging installations reached 167 million kilovolt-amperes.

An EV charging station on the shores of Qinghai Lake in Qinghai Province. (File photo/China News Service)

(By Gong Weiwei)