Expert in EV infrastructure and charging infrastructure in Belgium
Jochen De Smet combines strategic leadership (via EV Belgium) with practical knowledge of charging infrastructure and structural challenges — a key figure for anyone wanting to understand how Belgium accelerated and organized its electric charging infrastructure.
Summary of expertise
Policy & Sector Development: Leads EV Belgium and represents the sector in policy discussions
Infrastructure Analysis: Expert in interpreting charging network growth and regional inequalities
Education & Capacity Building: Conducts campaigns for structural training of installers in education
Profile
Proposed member and current chairman of EV Belgium , the sector federation for electric mobility in Belgium, since 2018 0082.avere.org .
Involved in policy efforts to accelerate the development and rollout of charging infrastructure.
Key Contributions & Insights
During 2022, he underlined the impressive growth rate of public charging points: 13,000 additional public and semi-public charging points were installed, putting Belgium well ahead of schedule in terms of infrastructure. Pluginvest
He points to significant regional differences: Flanders has roughly 21,000 charging points, compared to only 3,300 in Wallonia . This disparity is partly due to the lack of a forward-looking Pluginvest policy.
In a partnership with Interparking, he warned that education is a fundamental challenge in the sector: technicians must be trained in secondary education to meet the rapidly increasing demand for installation skills interparking.be .
