Development of Charging Infrastructure in the Russian Regions: A Scenario Analysis

Dmitry Yu. Evdokimov – Junior Researcher of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moscow, Russia). E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Yury Yu. Ponomarev – Head of the Laboratory for Infrastructure and Spatial Research of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; Senior Researcher of the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy, Candidate of Economic Sciences (Moscow, Russia). E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The development of electric cars and electric charging infrastructure is one of the breakthrough directions that form new markets based on modern technologies. The development of this sphere, organization of domestic production creates a «pulling effect» for technology, helps to develop related industries, creates conditions for further technological development of Russia.

The article considers the approaches to the planning of electric charging infrastructure at the regional level, on the basis of which a quantitative scenario analysis of the possible future dynamics of the number of electric cars and the necessary electric charging infrastructure for them in the context of Russian regions until 2030 is carried out.

The article was written on the basis of the RANEPA state assignment research programme.

Key words: infrastructure, electric charging stations, road network, planning, electric vehicles, electric charging stations, national development goals.

JEL-codes: L11, C54.