For the past few years, this newsletter has counted India’s public chargers, operator by operator. This month we did the same for Indonesia, the first of five new markets we’ll cover on ExpWithEVs, alongside Thailand, Malaysia, Brazil and Mexico.
A few things stood out:
One operator runs most of the network. PLN, the state electricity company, runs 3,428 of the 5,766 public chargers we counted, about six in ten. The next largest, Voltron, has 482.
It’s built for parked cars. Seven in ten chargers are rated at 22 kW or less. The 261 chargers above 150 kW are under 5 per cent of the network, yet they carry almost a quarter of its installed power.
Java has three quarters of it. Jakarta and the two provinces around it hold about 60 per cent of all public chargers.
Stations are small. A typical site has one or two chargers, so a single fault can leave a driver with nothing.
Contrast with India: Indonesia’s network is smaller and leans on Type 2 AC charging, which is declining in India. Indian operators have moved towards larger stations and high-power charging; it will be worth watching whether Indonesia’s follow.
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