Hungary, for instance, which has managed to attract significant investment in the car industry, had 1,295 EV charging stations, according to the same source, while the Netherlands is the absolute European leader with over 66,000 such stations.
Despite the popularity of electric mobility in the rhetoric, official data show that alternative fuels are currently only a niche in relation to the total market.
With electric cars accounting for just 0.1% of the total market, the much-discussed greening of mobility is still a long way from happening.
Depending on the source, however, the data differ quite a bit, which is another indication of the immaturity of the electric mobility market.
For example, the independent electric mobility information aggregator Open Charge Map shows that there are 460 electric stations in Romania, while the electric mobility portal Lektri.co shows that there are currently more than 1,000 charging locations for electric cars, corresponding to a total of 2,086 chargers.
But Hungary did not idle in 2021, either, so at the end of last year, according to publicly available information, the country had more than 2,150 EV charging stations.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)