Europe’s charging revolution is happening in the supermarket car park. Lidl now operates more EV chargers than Luxembourg or Ireland — a sign that private initiatives, not public planning, are doing much of the heavy lifting in Europe’s energy transition.
Kind of confused by the framing. If the target is for 2030, why is it „only 26%?“ That’s 4+ years away. This graphic reads as overly negative: what pace are they actually on to achieve this?
L4r5man on
This is very misleading. Norway has a very well developed EV charging infrastructure, but you would think the opposite from this map. It’s just that large parts of the country is just empty. No houses, no people, no roads. Of course there’s no charging stations in the middle of a forest or on top of a mountain.
-DanRoM- on
In northern Scandinavia, fuel station density is also low.
mantolwen on
r/peopleliveincities ?
Is the target for population or area?
m_faustus on
Forgive my ignorance, but what is the upside down L shape of low connection in the middle of Germany?
Otherwise-Fee-261 on
r/MapPorn users when countries don’t build chargers on empty plots of land where nobody fucking lives 😱😱
usefulidiot579 on
Correct me if im wrong, but china has 65% of the worlds EV charging stations?
I think it’s 17 million charging stations in China, second Europe, and then US
Sigmmarr on
What tf is ev charging gap
rosstafarien on
Nobody lives or drives in the red parts of Norway, Sweden, and Finland.
Loopbloc on
You can also charge in the mountains ?
tenid on
As people have stated earlier about northern Nordics is that it’s sparsely populated plus many charge at home (same as they do with a ice car to be honest) so that they are warmed up and ready to go in the morning and do most off their driving out off home charging plus availability at work.
What makes me confused is the presumed bad data over Stockholm where there is both public dcfc and public slow chargers all over the place.
MightBeAGoodIdea on
H

How dare super rural Scandinavia, population density of like 3 people or 300 bears per sq km, not have an extensive EV network…
jamesdownwell on
You see that red bit of Iceland which looks massive? That’s the inhabitable highlands. The main road, Route 1 is a ring road around the habitable part of the country.
Iceland’s charging infrastructure is generally excellent, you can comfortably drive around the country in an EV, around half of new cars sold are EVs. They’re everywhere, so the map is pretty misleading.
leaningtoweravenger on
I’m really surprised that in the middle of the fecking nowhere at the centre of Iceland there aren’t many charging stations (most probably not even roads)
trupawlak on
This map is showing that EV infrastructure is already in great shape. I mean I would expect much worse coverage, especially considering most red spots are very sparcely populated territory.
kaspars222 on
This map is dumb as fuck.
SnooBooks1701 on
Ok, and how does that compare to the percentage of the population?
numitus on
Just a map of national parks here
Longy_LTB on
And now we see more impact of Brexit. Left off the map altogether 😔
paramalign on
To get “excellent” coverage in northern Sweden there’d have to be more fast chargers than human beings. The population density in the red area hovers around 1 per square kilometer.
Veritas_Vanitatum on
Why is the last half of the countries missing again? If it’s a Europe map, then show all European countries
I can still understand it with the EU, but this is unsatisfied
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Europe’s charging revolution is happening in the supermarket car park. Lidl now operates more EV chargers than Luxembourg or Ireland — a sign that private initiatives, not public planning, are doing much of the heavy lifting in Europe’s energy transition.
It looks exactly like a population density map
This doesn’t explain why [98.3% of new cars registered](https://elbil.no/nybilsalget-i-september-2025-stadig-naermere-helelektrisk-nybilsalg/) in Norway are electric. Do only the people living in Oslo buy new cars?
Kind of confused by the framing. If the target is for 2030, why is it „only 26%?“ That’s 4+ years away. This graphic reads as overly negative: what pace are they actually on to achieve this?
This is very misleading. Norway has a very well developed EV charging infrastructure, but you would think the opposite from this map. It’s just that large parts of the country is just empty. No houses, no people, no roads. Of course there’s no charging stations in the middle of a forest or on top of a mountain.
In northern Scandinavia, fuel station density is also low.
r/peopleliveincities ?
Is the target for population or area?
Forgive my ignorance, but what is the upside down L shape of low connection in the middle of Germany?
r/MapPorn users when countries don’t build chargers on empty plots of land where nobody fucking lives 😱😱
Correct me if im wrong, but china has 65% of the worlds EV charging stations?
I think it’s 17 million charging stations in China, second Europe, and then US
What tf is ev charging gap
Nobody lives or drives in the red parts of Norway, Sweden, and Finland.
You can also charge in the mountains ?
As people have stated earlier about northern Nordics is that it’s sparsely populated plus many charge at home (same as they do with a ice car to be honest) so that they are warmed up and ready to go in the morning and do most off their driving out off home charging plus availability at work.
What makes me confused is the presumed bad data over Stockholm where there is both public dcfc and public slow chargers all over the place.
H

How dare super rural Scandinavia, population density of like 3 people or 300 bears per sq km, not have an extensive EV network…
You see that red bit of Iceland which looks massive? That’s the inhabitable highlands. The main road, Route 1 is a ring road around the habitable part of the country.
Iceland’s charging infrastructure is generally excellent, you can comfortably drive around the country in an EV, around half of new cars sold are EVs. They’re everywhere, so the map is pretty misleading.
I’m really surprised that in the middle of the fecking nowhere at the centre of Iceland there aren’t many charging stations (most probably not even roads)
This map is showing that EV infrastructure is already in great shape. I mean I would expect much worse coverage, especially considering most red spots are very sparcely populated territory.
This map is dumb as fuck.
Ok, and how does that compare to the percentage of the population?
Just a map of national parks here
And now we see more impact of Brexit. Left off the map altogether 😔
To get “excellent” coverage in northern Sweden there’d have to be more fast chargers than human beings. The population density in the red area hovers around 1 per square kilometer.
Why is the last half of the countries missing again? If it’s a Europe map, then show all European countries
I can still understand it with the EU, but this is unsatisfied