Czechia has 5184 charging points for cars, trails far behind many EU countries

Czechia currently has 5184 public charging points for electric cars and is significantly behind many European Union countries. The share of points offering very fast charging is 6,6 percent, or 344 points. This is according to a press release by Lukáš Kadula of the Transport Research Centre and updated figures on the Čistá doprava website. Even Greece and Portugal, which are comparable in size, are ahead of Czechia in the number of charging points, while countries such as Denmark, Austria, Sweden and Belgium have several times more.

Almost 60 percent of charging points in the EU are located in just three countries: the Netherlands, Germany and France. The Netherlands, with half as many more inhabitants as Czechia, has around 170.000 charging points, more than thirty times the number in Czechia. Nearly 28.000 chargers are available at charging points in Czechia.

In the first half of the year, 5622 battery electric vehicles were newly registered in Czechia, bringing the total to 40.584. Used cars accounted for a quarter of new registrations. Tesla was by far the most popular, with 1987 registrations, followed by Škoda with 489 vehicles; BMW had a similar number of registered cars. Tesla was also the most frequently registered electric car among used vehicles. „Year-on-year growth in registrations of new battery electric vehicles reached 38,6 percent in the first half of the year. Their share of total registrations was 3,6 percent, putting us in 24th place in the EU. The gradual rollout of the National Development Bank’s Electromobility guarantee programme, launched in March, undoubtedly also had a significant impact on year-on-year growth,“ Kadula said.

A total of 712.637 battery electric cars were registered in the EU in the first half of the year, accounting for 12,5 percent of all registrations. Petrol cars made up a third, hybrids without external charging accounted for 29 percent, and diesel cars for 13 percent. Year-on-year, 1,3 percent more battery electric cars were registered. The low growth was influenced by the German market, which fell by 16,4 percent. Markets in Sweden and Finland also saw significant declines, while large markets such as France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark grew.