No other German city has more public e-charging points per registered car than Ingolstadt. This emerges from the data from the Federal Network Agency and the Federal Motor Transport Authority, which the Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) has now compared for its charging network ranking. Accordingly, as of July 1st, there were 1,527 public charging points and 100,400 registered cars in Ingolstadt – i.e. 66 cars per charging point.
The city of Regensburg took second place nationwide with 125 cars per charging point, followed by Emden in Lower Saxony. There are car factories for Audi, BMW and VW in the three cities.
VDA President Hildegard Müller said: “People need the certainty that they can easily charge anywhere and at any time so that they can switch to e-mobility.” But in eight out of ten communities in Germany there is still no fast charging point, and in half of all communities there is not even a single public charging point. This is “sobering and highlights the need for political action.”
According to the VDA, there are 320 registered cars at a public charging point in the city of Munich, 373 in Nuremberg and 472 in Augsburg. The supply in Bavaria is thinnest in the city of Schwabach (1207) and in the Miltenberg district (1337).
As of the reporting date, there were around 97,500 publicly accessible charging points in Germany, including 18,600 fast charging points, for around two million battery-powered cars (BEVs) and plug-in hybrids (PHEVs). Among the federal states, Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Thuringia have the best ratio of electric cars and charging points. However, “the number of electric cars in the new federal states is still comparatively small,” emphasized the VDA.
Bavaria is in the middle of the field nationwide
Bayern ends up in midfield in seventh place. In Ingolstadt, only four electric cars have to share a charging point – here too, the city performs best in the country, ahead of Emden and Salzgitter. Electric car drivers are currently having the hardest time in Wiesbaden, where there are 115 electric cars at one public charging point. Between January and July, “the expansion of charging points was particularly dynamic in the frontrunner Ingolstadt, where 859 public charging points were added,” the association said. “In the Free State, with 1,176 fast charging points, the most were added compared to the last evaluation.”
If the federal government wants to achieve its stated goal of at least one million public charging points nationwide by 2030, the pace of expansion would have to triple.