To support long distance driving, Korea to build 1,000 EV chargers on highways

South Korea will increase the number of electric vehicle (EV) chargers at highway service areas nationwide to over 1,000 by the end of 2022, its transport ministry announced.

At present, there are 435 EV chargers across the country's highway rest stops. The government plans to increase that to 730 by the end of this month and then add more than 300 chargers next year, according to Yonhap.

This is in line with the country's plan to help meet rising demand for EVs and the resultant charging infrastructure, as the government plans to supply 4.5 million pure electric and hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles by 2030.

In the January-October 2021 period, the number of highway EV charger users came to 872,000, already exceeding the 700,000 users for all of 2020, added the ministry.