Association: Emden among top three nationwide for e-charging network
No other city in Lower Saxony has more public e-charging points per registered car than Emden. This is based on data from the Federal Network Agency and the Federal Motor Transport Authority, which the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) has now compared for its charging network ranking.
According to this, there were 195 public charging points and 25,450 registered cars in Emden as of July 1, 2023 - i.e. 131 cars per charging point. This figure includes not only e-cars, but all registered cars, including those with combustion engines. This puts Emden in third place nationwide behind Ingolstadt with 66 cars per charging point and Regensburg with 125 cars per charging point. The three cities are home to VW, Audi and BMW car factories.
According to the VDA, there are 336 registered cars per public charging point in the Hanover region, 310 in Osnabrück and 593 in Oldenburg. 156 registered cars per charging point at VW's headquarters in Wolfsburg. The supply in Lower Saxony is lowest in the Hameln-Pyrmont district (1047) and the Wolfenbüttel district (1142).
VDA President Hildegard Müller said: "People need the certainty of being able to charge easily anywhere and at any time in order to switch to e-mobility." But in eight out of ten municipalities in Germany there is still no fast charging point, and in half of all municipalities there is not even a single public charging point. This is "sobering and highlights the need for political action". If the German government wants to achieve its declared goal of at least one million public charging points nationwide by 2030, the pace of expansion must triple, according to the VDA.
In Emden, electric car consumers have access to an abundant number of charging points, with 195 available and only 131 cars per point. To encourage more electric car adoption, the German government needs to expedite the expansion of charging points significantly, as there are currently only fast charging points in eight out of ten German municipalities.
Source: www.dpa.com
