What's plugging into the grid?
The Charge
Millions of cars and the first electric trucks are becoming the grid's newest, most flexible load. This is where they plug in, what it costs to charge, and how much of the promise is actually built.
Charging Network Chart
Germany's public charge points — how many, how fast, who runs them, and where they cluster.
Public charge points only; the real network is larger.
Europe Compared Chart
The EU's public charging network — over a million points, most of them in just three countries.
AFIR corridor figures are legal targets; coverage is measured against them, not asserted as met.
The Price Jungle Chart
What public charging actually costs — a spread so wide the competition authority investigated it.
A snapshot of published tariffs, dated at the source; the BNetzA collects no tariff data, so this is a cited range, not a settled figure.
Demand on the Grid Chart
What EVs actually draw today — roughly a hundredth of German demand — against the scenarios for 2030.
Realized demand is an estimate — no official statistic isolates EV charging. The figures for 2030 are scenario projections, not a forecast.
Vehicle-to-Grid Chart
The rules arrived and the first offers launched — while realized participation is still near zero.
The rules and the offers are live; realized participation is near zero, gated by the smart-meter rollout.
Trucks & Buses Chart
Heavy-duty, honestly split: buses are in service by the thousand; truck charging is mostly still a tender.
Truck-charging figures are targets and pilots; bus figures are vehicles in service. The two are not the same kind of number.
Charging Economics Chart
Is public fast charging profitable? The one operator with audited public books says: not yet — but closer.
One listed company's audited results — a window into the sector, not the sector.
The 2035 Question Chart
Brussels reopened the 2035 combustion phase-out — the competing estimates, cited, with no verdict.
A live legislative negotiation — cited positions and competing estimates, not a verdict.