ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - An electric vehicle charging project using renewable energy will be built in the Kurdistan Region, a government official told The New Region on Tuesday.
“A local company with the support of a foreign firm will bring an electric vehicle charging project to the Kurdistan Region,” Bargasht Akraiy, spokesperson of the Kurdistan Board of Investment said. “The administrative works of the project will be finished in the near future.”
One key issue discouraging people from buying electric vehicles is the shortage of charging stations in the Kurdistan Region.
Akraiy added the Kurdistan Board of Investment has already informed “the entire investment board directorates in the cities and independent administrations to allocate land for the project.”
The investment spokesperson added that hundreds of charging stations will be installed across the Kurdistan Region as part of the project.
This project will be the first to be brought to the Kurdistan Region and Iraq.
He detailed the government will not have to provide electricity for the charging stations because the project itself will "produce power from sunlight.”
There are currently a limited number of charging stations for electric vehicles in the Kurdistan Region. The bulk of them are located in parking areas inside residential complexes, and a small number are inside gas stations. The majority of them are free of charge for electric vehicle owners.
Iraq’s Defense Industries Commission in April announced that they had plans to launch Iraq’s first EV factory by the end of 2024, using international standards to produce environmentally friendly electric vehicles.
Electronic cars are expected to dominate the automotive industry in the future gradually.
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