The government approved the new legal regime of electric mobility, which simplifies the electrical charging process. It is eliminated the obligation of contracts with the load networks, which allows simple payments with bank card or QR code and ensures greater transparency in prices.
It will be easier to charge electric vehicles at public supply stations.
In the context of state reform, the government approved, to the Council of Ministers of Thursday, the new legal regime of Electric Mobility (RJME), that “simplifies the electrical charging process by eliminating the obligation of contracts with traders.”
The new regime allows charges with simple bank card payments or QR Code, guaranteeing greater price transparency, says the government published on Friday.
RJME “translates into a stimulation of technological innovation and the digitization of the sector, and responds to climate and energy goals in the fulfillment of the purpose of a Most sustainable mobility“The government note adds.
One of the news of the regime now approved and the implementation of a more efficient model, with Less interveners – Logo fewer ratesstresses the statement.
“The government wants bring more transparency to the sectorfrom the outset because users are entitled to a clear and noticeable invoice when they carry their cars, ”says the Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, Miguel Pinto Luzquoted in the note.
For the Minister of Environment and Energy, Maria da Graça Carvalho“The new regime promotes the sector liberalization, allowing the increase in the number of posts loading. With more competition, everything points to a Cost Reduction and greater transparency in prices, namely in the motorways ”.
What do users win?
In the first place, paid fees are reduced by the user, since there is no longer intermediaries in the process. Customers, but also traders and operators, They fail to have the obligation to be linked To the Electric Mobility Management Entity, currently designated at Mobie.
This change brings a substantial benefit: Users are no longer needed to have a Contract with an energy traderas it currently happens.
The loading stations with powers equal to or greater than 50 kW become required to make payment available through card Banking / ATM. Posts with lower powers should at least offer payment methods through Alternative electronic means, such as QR Code.
It will also be mandatory that the loading stations have information and viewas with fossil fuel supply stations.
One of the great changes brought by the new regime is that the customer is known exactly how much you will pay When it carries: from now on, the user pays at the moment Only the final load value.
The RJME was also thought of the assumption that electric mobility will be cheaper. With the liberalization of the electric mobility market, the government intends to Market attract more players and advance in that sense. On the other hand, liberalization should increase the number of loading posts.
New rules divide sector
The various interveners in the electrical mobility sector, heard by, They are divided into the assessment that make the document Preliminary presented by the government, and express some concerns about the new rules now introduced.
Although self-consumer permission at loading points is a consensual positive point, as is the availability of automatic payment terminals, the predictions of the effects on prices, in competition And in the growth of the network are antagonistic.
To Ricardo Pachecoresponsible in Portugal of Iberdrola BP Pulse, “change is clearly positive”. The same understands José Maria Sacaduraco -founder and general director of PowerDot.
Both companies are operators of loading points, being responsible for install, operate and keep loading stations.
However, with the new regime, PowerDot explains that will have to adapt Some of its systems and processes, namely to respond to direct management of energy sales – something that already does in other markets.
Already Daniela SimõesCEO and co-founder of myio, recognizes the effort “to simplify and liberalize”, but identifies “relevant concerns“, Defending“ solid mechanisms of regulation and coordination ”to follow the changes.
“Without these safeguards, we risk compromising progress so far in building accessible, functional and truly -centered electric mobility,” he warns.
Also Ricardo SoaresDirector General of GO.Carge, considers that the proposal, in the current form, “presents more risks than benefitsAnd that “must be a deep review” so as not to lead to the evolution of electric mobility.
