In Russia, charging stations will be installed underground.

Fans of electric cars are often at a loss – why, they say, there are charging stations in underground parking lots in the west, but we can count them on one hand? The answer is simple – there was an official ban, but now everything will change.

Yes, earlier the Ministry of Emergency Situations prohibited the installation of charging stations due to fire safety requirements. But eight years later, the department decided to cancel it. The department cites two points as reasons for the policy change. First, the number of electric vehicles in the Russian Federation is growing steadily. Second, fires, from which the prohibition protects, are relatively rare.

True, all these legislative metamorphoses look somewhat strange. First, the ban will only be lifted by 2022. Secondly, stations were already installed in the parking lots of the shopping center and underground parking lots of several residential complexes.