Ingolstadt leads the nationwide e-car charging network
No other German city has more public e-charging points per registered car than Ingolstadt. This is according to 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 the data, there were 1527 public charging points and 100,400 registered cars in Ingolstadt as of July 1 - i.e. 66 cars per charging point. The city of Regenburg took second place nationwide with 125 cars per charging point, followed by Emden in Lower Saxony. The three cities are home to Audi, BMW and VW car factories.
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".
According to the VDA, there are 320 registered cars per public charging point in the city of Munich, 373 in Nuremberg and 472 in Augsburg. In Bavaria, the city of Schwabach (1207) and the district of Miltenberg (1337) have the lowest availability.
In Germany, there were around 97,500 publicly accessible charging points, including 18,600 fast-charging points, for around two million battery-powered cars (BEV) and plug-in hybrids (PHEV) on the reporting date. Among the federal states, Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Thuringia have the best ratio of e-cars to charging points. However, "the number of e-cars in the new federal states is still comparatively low", emphasized the VDA. Bavaria is in seventh place in the midfield.
In Ingolstadt, only four e-cars have to share a charging point - here too, the city performs best nationwide, ahead of Emden and Salzgitter. E-car drivers currently have the hardest time in Wiesbaden, where 115 e-cars have to share one public charging point.
Between January and July, "the expansion of charging points was particularly dynamic in the front-runner Ingolstadt, where 859 public charging points were added", the association reported. "With 1176 fast-charging points, the Free State added the most compared to the last evaluation." However, if the German government wants to achieve its declared goal of at least one million public charging points nationwide by 2030, the rate of expansion will have to triple.
Electric car consumers in Ingolstadt have an advantage with 1527 public charging points, making it easier for every 66 electric cars to refuel. Despite Ingolstadt's lead, many municipalities in Germany still lack fast charging points, highlighting the need for political action to support electric vehicle adoption.
Source: www.dpa.com
