state company ancap plan install a “network of charging stations” throughout the country so that electric cars can be charged, in addition to drivers having a series of services while that happens.
These places would function like gas stations, but with power instead of fuel. This seeks to expand the Electric Route installed in the country and “change” the “consumption habits” of drivers, informed the president of the entity, Alejandro Stipanicic.
The chief said in an interview with Telemundo (Channel 12) that Ancap seeks “generate a service offer” for customers with electric cars: “Washing, aesthetic conditioning, upholstery cleaning services, the gastronomic offer, the rest offer, with places to clean up, bathrooms, I am thinking of places on the road, are all the services that are can accommodate a pleasant trip while you have to wait 30 or 40 minutes for the car to charge its battery”.
The first point of the network will be placed on the international bridge between Paysandú and Colón, Stipanicic detailed. Asked about the project, the vice president of Ancap Diego Durand told The Observer that the state entity signed an agreement with the Ministry of Defense and the Uruguay River Administrative Commission (CARU) what for the “land adjacent to the fuel plant” located at the head of the bridge is used as “a logistics truck parking” that allows to “decompress the arrival” of tourists.
The vice president pointed out that the station will have “last generation chargers” Y “one of the biggest” 360 stores – Ancap line of stores at service stations.
Stipanicic expects the electric station to be operational this year, but Durand acknowledged that the agency does not have a “term” for the construction of the work. “We are already making progress with the land, to that is added the construction, which will employ a lot of labor,” said the vice president, who hopes that the project be completed “as soon as possible”.
Expansion of this network of charging stations will be subject to the increase of electric cars in the countryadded Stipanicic.
Ancap and UTE work to renegotiate an energy supply contractbecause “technology advanced so much that the previous contract fell by way of facts”, declared Durand. According to the hierarch, the current technologies for the supply and supply of electrical energy require “more power”.
According to his vice president“Ancap is projected in the energy transformation”. In this transformation, Durand maintained that the organism must think about a space “to place a hydrogen dispenser” next to the dispensers fossil fuel and electricalthough he clarified that it is a “long-term” plan.
