According to Ulf Rapp (S), chairman of the municipal executive board, the initiative is crucial for the municipality's climate work.

"Above all, it's about being able to replace our car fleet with electric cars in our operations. This requires us to have charging points in place," he says. To enable the transition, charging points have been installed at three strategic locations in the municipality: three at TSN's premises in Råssa, five at the fire station in Bollebygd and one at the library.

Major benefits

Daniel Grönbek, Head of Real Estate, sees great benefits from the investment.

"When businesses decide to buy electric cars, they don't have to think about the charging stations - it's all part of the switch. This has made the whole process smoother and easier," he explains.

Having a central strategy for charging infrastructure also allows the municipality to ensure that the initiative is implemented effectively.

"We don't just want to talk about a green transition - we want to show that it is possible to make a difference in practice," says Ulf Rapp.

Economic investment is crucial

The financial effort has been crucial to keep up the pace of the transition.

"Without the targeted funds, it would have been difficult to get businesses to cover the cost of chargers themselves. The risk would have been that the purchase of electric cars would have stopped," says Daniel.

Looking ahead, Peter Krahl Rydberg, Environment and Sustainability Strategist, sees several challenges.

"An important part is to find a long-term parking supply. At the moment, we use some temporary parking lots, where the home care service's cars are parked, for example, and we don't want to put charging stations there. As I understand it, the parking issue has not been included in the local supply plan before. However, it is something we want to work in. Electrification will be of great benefit to the home service cars, and it is important that they are parked in parking lots where we establish charging facilities."

The legal requirement linked to setting up charging posts in parking lots affects Bollebygds municipality (Planning and Building Ordinance 2011:338, Chapter 20c §).

"We will therefore conduct a travel survey among employees to get the right understanding of the charging stations we need to set up in connection with the legal requirement," says Peter Krahl Rydberg.

The activity with the most cars in the municipality is the home care service. Daniel and Peter see a future challenge there, as several of the 15/16 cars currently on the road will gradually be replaced. Here, driving logs are a good help to see during what times and how much it is used, so that charging infrastructure can be planned for the cars that are intended to run on electricity.