ELECTRIC VEHICLES CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE IN EUROPE

The EU had 224,538 public charging points in 2020. 76% of all charging points are located in 4 countries (Netherlands, Germany, France, and UK). The four top selling EV markets in the EU represent 76% of public charging infrastructure but also concentrate 75% of the EVs, showing that both EV rollout and infrastructure deployment is happening in parallel. Since these countries represent such a large share of EU’s GDP and car sales, it is natural for these countries to be the starting point of new technology adoption.

Mapping the number of public chargers in each Member State should always be put into perspective with the size of the car market and the EV market, rather than the correlating the number of infrastructure and the area of the country

Front-runners: Front runners are most Western and Nordic countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Sweden and the UK. The Front-runners group is composed of the EU’s 11 most wealthy countries (per capita), these Member States are identified as market leaders. The region amounts for about 80% of EVs and public charging infrastructure in 2020 and represents about 70% of the Union’s GDP and sales of cars.

Followers: Followers are  Italy, Portugal and Spain

Slow starters: Slow starters with less than 500 public charging points are Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Romania. Czech Republic, Hungary , Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia have between 500 and 1000 public charging points.

At least 2.8 million EV charging points will be needed by 2030, according to conservative estimates by the European Commission. That means there should be roughly a 14-fold increase within the next 10 years.