We analyzed data from the European Commission’s TEN-T network to see how far Europe still is from reaching its 2030 target for EV charging infrastructure.

The map shows the distance to the nearest public charging point. Red areas showing regions where drivers need to travel more than 40 km to find one.

Source: European Commission TEN-T
Full analysis: Motointegrator Blog
Tools: Illustrator, Figma

Posted by DataPulse-Research

38 comments

  1. I hate it when I’m crossing the Icelandic Highland desert in my Nissan Leaf and can’t find a charging station.

  3. Weird metric. I have driven through Norway from south to north and back again with an EV that only does 260 km on a full charge. No problems at all

  4. With a few exceptions, is this not more or less a map of where people live?

  5. That bubble in Germany is quite weirdly shaped…

    (Edit: I do believe incorrect, as the bubble includes Magdeburg – a major city (which of cause has multipleEV chargers)

  7. Doesn’t mean much as most of the work building this infrastructure is invisible and progress is visible only at the last stages.

    It takes a lot of planning, land purchase, grid upgrades, new lines and other work to build charging infrastructure. Building chargers themselves is the last stage of a long project. The target might not be reached, until 2030, but the current numbers don’t mean that much. The real progress will be visible in the last few years.

  8. 40 KM is considered a long distance? Maybe for my e-bike. 

  9. the colors are a terrible choice, it looks like coverage is amazing when its the opposite

  10. Since they heavily started in 2023 thats means in 2 years they are through 26% of goal, so they are more or less on target.

  12. What a misleading map. OP, you should be ashamed of yourself.

  13. To me, the coverage looks incredible from this map. You can basically drive from the North Sea to the Adriatic and never be more than 2 kilometers from an EV charger.

  14. Can we not be dumb and instead overlay a population density map on this please?

  15. I dont believe this map at all, it doesnt make sense at all. How is norway the country with the biggest implementaition of ev’s the worst lol. What a fucking useless map haha

  17. A literal glacier is marked as red here, no shit there are no chargers there

  18. Hate it when I’m in the Arctic in my Tesla and can’t find a charging station

  19. Seems like pretty good pace actually, 1/4 of the way there with 5 more years to go

  20. Was travelling yesterday. Bregenz (Austria) to Frankfurt (Germany). Wanted to charge at AMAG in Rheinfelden (near Basel, big VW dealership). Fast charger gives me only 11-34KW. What the heck, was charging there before with 150KW. My Range was 30km, so I thought I drive over to France as there were good Allego chargers on the map. Arrived there, the freaking parking spot at the Carrefour or whatever it was is blocked by CONCRETE blocks, you cannot drive in. Chargers are functional and available. LOL. Meanwhile range is 20km. I drive to the next „fast charger“ at the next mall. No charger in sight? Is it inside the building or something? Meanwhile 15km range. I say f**k it and drive over to Germany, also an Allego charger but super expensive – I have no choise. Charge 100km worth of range and can finally go to the proper Ionity chargers 80km away on the Autobahn. This is these experiences when I really want to cry. And I drive EV for 7 years and know all the nitty gritty things… But I need to admit it is still not where it should be besides the highway networks. Also all these different cards and prices just need to stop. So annoying.

  21. Heres the thing though, with the steadily improving technology for the batteries increasing range iteratively year by year, this target might not be as important as it used to be. If you have a 500 km range tank, you don’t really care as much about having a charger on every street corner, and basically everyone has a trickle charger at their home if they own an electric car.

  22. The real problem with this map is that Kalingrad Oblast is coloured as baltic sea, instead of grey like all the other non EU land.

  24. Scandinavian “glesbygden” ruining EU plans

    P.s. glesbygden means “scattered settlement”, basically rural areas.

    Edit: although I have to point out that this does not seem accurate

  25. The bigger problem than coverage is currently the nubmer of different cards, apps and memberships you need to have in order to charge for reasonable rates. Especially while traveling abroad, its a nightmare…

  26. Bit disappointed they missed the opportunity to colour all the sea red as well. I can tell you from painful experience that you can’t find an ev charger there for love nor money.

  27. why the unnecessary quantisation? Its just a „distance to next charger“ map, but made worse?

  28. Was this project started in 2024, 2004, or 1994?  Kinda hard to tell if 25% progress is good, bad, or fire with just a target end date.

  29. Shouldn’t this be relative to roads and population centers. Doing this geographically doesn’t make sense. There shouldn’t be a charger in an abboreal forest.

  31. One of the consequences of this is that EV takeup in Europe is lagging.

    That means European car makers have a smaller market than they otherwise would.

    THAT gives China a huge advantage. While European manufacturers struggle to get enough sales to justify research, China is raking in the money worldwide…and heavily investing in better cars and cheaper manufacturing.

    Thus, when European charging infrastructure catches up, Chinese cars will be cheaper and more advanced by far than anything made in Europe. And it will be Chinese cars that use the charging infrastructure.

    Getting European charging infrastructure ahead of target is critical to the survival of automotive industry in Europe. This map spells doom for European automotive companies.

  33. Sound like they will finish ahead of schedule since the pace is only increasing.

  34. If only there was some other means of transportation besides cars…

  35. I am not saying I don’t trust this data, but why isn’t there a gap in the alps?

    I would expect there to be a sizable area where there are no chargers.

  37. From a swedish perspective: A lot of those red areas doesn’t have roads or inhabitants. Also data seems weird, my charge app has more dots than that.

  38. I’ve done a few Roadtrips using EVs in western Europe (I’m German) and while the coverage is excellent by now, I really hope we stop building chargers in the same places as gas stations. 

    We usually build gas stations where it’s cheap and nothing to do in some industrial area since you’re in and out quick. That’s not where I want to be stuck at when charging my EV. I’d genuinely pay a few cents more for charging if I wasn’t stuck in some industrial district, but instead near a museum, restaurant, forest, anything.

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