What are the penalties for occupying charging station parking spaces?
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Occupying charging station parking spaces will result in fines. There are relevant national regulations stipulating that newly built residential areas and office buildings must be equipped with sufficient charging parking spaces or reserve installation conditions. For example, in Beijing, according to related media reports, it was previously stipulated that 100% of parking spaces in new residential areas must meet the conditions for installing charging stations, at least 25% must be configured in office buildings, and the proportion of public charging facilities in public parking lots in each district should not be less than 10% of the parking spaces. More relevant information is as follows: Note 1: However, in actual implementation, many regions across the country still face issues where property management does not cooperate, making it impossible to install charging parking spaces, or car owners do not have fixed parking spaces and thus cannot install private charging stations. According to statistics, as of September 2019, there were over 313,400 new energy vehicles without accompanying charging stations, meaning these car owners need to use public charging stations. However, many charging parking spaces are long occupied by fuel vehicles. Note 2: If the fine regulations proposed by the Beijing Municipal Commission of Transport and the Beijing Traffic Management Bureau are implemented, it means Beijing will have specific penalty bases and clear fine amounts for non-electric vehicles occupying electric vehicle parking spaces. Other provinces and cities will also gradually introduce corresponding management measures. This will undoubtedly have an immediate effect on the nationwide phenomenon of non-electric vehicles occupying dedicated electric vehicle parking spaces in parking lots and on-street parking, preventing the latter from parking and charging.
