The main purpose of this article is to prepare an appropriate plan for the development of the infrastructure of the
Bieszczady region for the use of electric cars as the primary means of mass and private transport for residents
and tourists in the Bieszczady region. Over the next few years, electric cars will be available to an increasing
number of people, thanks to more affordable purchase costs. This is made possible due to the dissemination of
technology on the market and the emergence of increasing competition in individual segments of the automotive industry. The decisive condition will be the appropriate infrastructural facilities – i.e., chargers for electric
cars, both those “fast” for direct current (DC) and “slow” for alternating current (AC). The development of
infrastructure directly contributes to the purchasing decisions of electric cars made by residents of a given territory or people traveling through a given country with their own cars in the context of potential supplementation
of electricity. In the first part, a review of the literature on the topic of electric cars is introduced. The second
part presents the Bieszczady region in the context of electromobility implementation. In the last part, a detailed
analysis of the region’s infrastructure (roads and car parks) is prepared, and, as a consequence, places are selected where the construction of a charging station would be justified. During point selection, the key parameters
are the current condition of the road and parking infrastructure, the number of residents and tourists in a given
zone of the region, and the strategic importance of the region. This article presents a detailed infrastructure
analysis of locations where charging stations could be installed, including their amounts and power, in the
Bieszczady region. The latter is divided into communes (i.e., Ustrzyki Dolne, Czarna, and Lutowiska), which
provide a total of 14 locations, 55 stations, and 113 charging points.
Introduction
In the face of the challenge of the current climate crisis, it is necessary to accelerate the so-called
energy transition to mitigate the harmful effects on
the planet caused by the increase in greenhouse
gas emissions into its atmosphere over the last few
decades (Cook et al., 2013). One of the main pillars of this transition is the decarbonization of the
econom