Everyone is talking about the charging infrastructure, there should be a million public charging points in Germany – by 2030. We should all switch to cars without internal combustion engines as early as possible. How should that work?
It’s actually very simple: the more charging points there are, the more attractive the region is for switching to electric cars. The average is currently 1486 per charging station.
“There are currently an average of around 1500 vehicles on a public e-charging point. This ratio has to decrease in order to make the region more attractive for switching to electromobility, ”says Hildegard Müller, President of the Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA).
The VDA created the first electrical charging network ranking for all of Germany
According to this, the 13,239 registered e-cars in Berlin share 1,192 charging points, an average of 11.1 cars per charging station.
In the city of Krefeld, things are looking gloomy. Only 5 charging stations, 993 e-cars, make up a partial rate of 198.6.
In Ingolstadt, Audi’s hometown, 41 e-cars share a charging station, in Stuttgart 87.7, in Munich 12.7.
Goal: One million charging points by 2030
The Federal Government’s “Master Plan Charging Infrastructure” sets the target of one million public charging points by 2030. “In order to achieve the target set by the state, around 2000 new public charging points will be required every week. Currently, however, only around 200 new charging points are being installed in the public sector, ”says Müller.
Germany is already European champion in e-cars. 50,000 new e-cars are currently on the road every month. “The Ladenetz ranking is an incentive for all municipalities to now actively take matters into their own hands and creates important transparency. From now on, the district administrators and mayors have to be judged by these numbers, ”said the VDA President.
There are currently 32 110 public charging points in Germany (source: Federal Network Agency, as of November 5, 2020). Private individuals have not yet been recorded centrally. Here too, Müller finally demands changes: “The recording of private charging points in households must now be set up. The numbers can best be provided by the energy industry. “
The distribution of public charging stations in Germany
► This is how the T-value works: The T value shows how many electric cars have to share a publicly accessible charging point. The T-value is the ratio of all currently registered electric cars and the available publicly accessible charging points per city and district, grouped by federal state. The private charging infrastructure is currently not recorded.