Recharging points

Why are these statistics needed?

It is important to provide statistics on electric vehicle (EV) recharging points due to the importance of electro-mobility in today’s transport sector and the continuous increase in the number of electric cars. These data can be used to:

• inform about the availability of existing recharging points and predict future needs
• facilitate infrastructure planning and development
• evaluate progress in implementing the EU sustainable and smart mobility strategy.

The indicators on the density and distribution of recharging points for electric vehicles will complement the current, voluntary data collection of regional statistics on the number of electric vehicles.

Why are they considered statistics under development?

These statistics are under development because new data sources are used to collect these data, which causes no additional burden to national statistical authorities. These sources enable the calculation of statistical indicators to assess the density and distribution of recharging points by energy capacity at regional level (NUTS 3). Data are provided for 3 reference years (2023, 2024, 2025) for EU and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries as well as candidate countries, and potential candidates. 

Eurostat together with the EU countries is also working on identifying administrative data sources that could potentially replace the currently used proprietary ones.

How are they produced?

The statistical indicators on the distribution and density of recharging points for electric vehicles are calculated by Eurostat using proprietary data coming from the company Eco-Movement, which cover all publicly accessible charging networks. The data are provided to Eurostat through the European Alternative Fuels Observatory (EAFO).

These data are complemented by:

• open-sourced OpenStreetMap (OSM) data to enable routing calculations
• the NUTS (Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics) classification to enable the aggregation and calculation of the indicators at regional level for NUTS 3.

For further details, please consult our  methodological note.

Access to the statistics

Note to users: Please consult those datasets in the list below that display the label ‘Statistics under development’ on the right hand side.