Public-Private Partnerships in the Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure in China: An Illustrative Case Study
Table 1
Overview of the existing charging infrastructure PPP projects.
Project name
Current stage
Launch time
Investment amount (million yuan)/(million US dollars)
Concession period (years)
Modalities
Scope of work
Payment mechanism
(1) Anqing electric vehicle charging infrastructure project
Procured
01-2016
818/124.58
13
Regional concession
Public charging piles: 1700
Viability gap funding
Bus charging stations: 4 (100 dc charging piles) (short-term)
(2) Liupanshui electric vehicle charging infrastructure project
Procured
03-2016
210.92/32.23
20
BOOT
Public charging piles: 396
Viability gap funding
(3) Kaili electric vehicle charging station project
Procured
03-2015
104/16.64
20
Not clear
Big charging stations: 12
Small charging stations: 100
(4) Tianjin electric vehicle charging infrastructure project
Prepared
10-2014
516/76.08
20
BOT
Public charging piles: 2000
Viability gap funding
Bus charging stations: 40
(5) Kuerle electric vehicle charging station project
Prepared
11-2015
227.73/51.80
30
BOT
Distributed charging piles: 492
User pay
Integrated charging stations: 16
(6) Quanzhou electric bus and charging station project
Prepared
09-2017
78.00/11.95
10
Regional concession
Electric bus: 120
Government pay
Integrated charging stations: 1
Note: this table shows only projects that are at procured and prepared stage, and projects in the identification stage are not included because of too little information.