What Countries Lead in Electric Vehicle Chargers

Evans on Marketing

7 years ago

For electric vehicle sales to ramp up further, consumers must believe in the convenience of charging stations. Thus, we need to know what countries lead in electric vehicle chargers. And how the United States performs in this area.

For some background information, check out Electric Cars Are Booming Worldwide.

Marketers Be Aware: What Countries Lead in Electric Vehicle Chargers

To understand the leaders in electric vehicle chargers, we must define our measurement tool. In this section, we look at charger density as our measure. Why? Because, this indicates the convenience of charger locations.

As Niall McCarthy reports for Statista:

“Over the past decade, the Netherlands has made swift progress to expand its infrastructure to support plug-in electric vehicles. According to data from Bond van Automobielhandelaren en Garagehouders, in 2011, the country had 1,826 charging stations. And that figure hit 33,607 this year. Last month, Vattenfall’s Dutch subsidiary Nuon announced it was teaming up with McDonald’s to equip every drive-thru restaurant nationwide with two fast charging points. That will add 68 stations to the country’s total.”

“A recent report from KPMG looked at the number of electric vehicle charging points per 100 kilometers of paved road. The report used International Energy Agency data. And it found that the Netherlands leads all developed countries with 19.3 charging stations per 100 kilometers. China has 3.5, still rather impressive given the size of the country and its huge population. The UK has 3.1, ahead of Germany’s 2.8.”

See how much the U.S. lags.

Electric Vehicle Charging in the United States

Despite the low density of chargers in the United States, their number is dramatically increasing.

Again, we turn to Niall McCarthy of Statista:

“During the past decade, things have improved drastically for prospective electric car buyers. How? With 25 battery-electric vehicles on the market to choose from, along with 26 plug-in hybrids. Tesla Model X and S cars have become increasingly common on U.S. roads, as have a multitude of other electric cars such as the Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf. The number of outlets has also grown as the technology has matured with 47,000 of them now scattered across the country, including 6,270 fast charging outlets.”