Overview

• The official snapshot counts 4,923 of 10,978 municipalities without any publicly accessible charging points.
• Larger towns fare far better, with 98% of communities over 5,000 residents hosting at least one public charger.
• Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen, Saarland and North Rhine-Westphalia report full municipal coverage, according to the data.
• Rhineland-Palatinate ranks last, with only 26.5% of its municipalities equipped with public charging infrastructure.
• Left party lawmaker Dietmar Bartsch calls the shortfall a failure of the transport transition and links weak infrastructure to auto-industry woes.