Motor journalist Nils Svärd at Vi Bilägare has driven an electric car for three years and has never had a problem finding a free charger when he needed it.

Only during a long journey with the family at Christ's ascension.

Then he got a taste of what big traffic weekends can mean when the electric cars quickly become more.

- Every time we needed to charge, there was a queue both in front of and behind us.

And then we were still lucky, others chose to take a chance and drive on.

But the journey from the West Coast to Stockholm took 7.5 hours instead of the planned five, and the breaks really did not come in the places we needed them.

Nils Svärd fears that this is just the beginning.

A number of manufacturers are currently in full swing to launch new electric car models aimed at the mass market, and later this year sales are expected to increase almost explosively.

The big holidays are challenging

At the same time, the charging infrastructure is lagging behind.

In everyday life, most people manage gallantly with charging at home - it is when the car is to be used on a long journey that there is a risk of a long wait at the charging stations.

- The real challenge will be the big holidays.

Then, as an electric driver, you should think before you go on a long trip with the children and try to time it so that you do not go at the same time as everyone else.

The first stress test is expected to come this midsummer.

Nils Svärd fears that it will be even worse after the turn of the year, when the number of electric cars on Swedish roads is expected to have increased from today's almost 80,000 to over 100,000.

- I tremble for the cottage change days on the sports holiday, when thousands of electric cars on their way to and from the mountains will be charged along the sparsely populated roads.

Especially as roof boxes and cooling means that the range is reduced and it becomes more risky to take a chance and drive on.

Coordination is needed

Now it is not the case that the expansion of charging stations is at a standstill.

There are a number of companies in the industry and more are expected to be added when the petrol companies have to look around for new ways of making money.

But it will take a few years, Nils Svärd believes:

- Now that there is pressure from a political point of view for us to electrify our vehicle fleet, we must also ensure that there is support and coordination to build up an infrastructure so that people can use the cars even for longer journeys.

But we have not really seen anything like that.

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Electric car owner John Carlbäck says he will never go back to "smoke cars" again. Electric cars are the future, he says. Photo: SVT / TT