A two-fold increase in the number of registered electric vehicles and a 25% increase in transport charging stations in Poland in 2021. PSPA summarizes the past year in Polish electromobility.
According to the “Electromobility Meter” maintained by the Polish Alternative Fuels Association and the Polish Automotive Industry Association, at the end of 2021, a total of 39,658 electric passenger and commercial vehicles were registered in Poland. Thus, over the last 12 months, the EV fleet in Poland has more than doubled (up 101% year-on-year). In the passenger car segment, 19,408 registrations were recorded. This is another consecutive historical record.
– Over the 12 months of 2021, almost twice as many electric passenger cars were registered as in 2020 and almost four times as many as in 2019. The number of new registrations turned out to be 125% higher than the entire EV fleet in 2019. In the segment of electric delivery and heavy-duty vehicles, the fleet grew by 63% over two years. In terms of the number of new electric passenger car registrations, we are currently at a similar level to, for example, Spain in 2018 and slightly higher than Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK in 2014 or Sweden in 2016 – says Maciej Mazur, Managing Director of PSPA.
A smaller-than-expected increase was recorded in the public charging infrastructure sector. At the end of December 2021, there were 1,932 public electric vehicle charging stations (3,784 points) operating in Poland. 30% of them were fast DC charging stations, and 70% were slow AC chargers with a power of less than or equal to 22 kW. In total, 568 new electric vehicle charging stations were put into operation in 2021, of which more than 1/5 – 119 – in December alone. The number of points launched in 2021 amounted to 1,143.
– The increase in new chargers in 2021 turned out to be higher compared to the exceptionally difficult year 2020, when 353 new stations were launched, as well as compared to 2019. Nevertheless, we expected a result about 10% better. The development of charging stations in Poland is still delayed by numerous barriers, primarily of an administrative and legal nature, including lengthy connection procedures and an ownership structure of power infrastructure at Motorway Service Areas that is unfavorable from the operators’ perspective. At the same time, charging stations in Poland are distributed very unevenly, with as many as 41% of them concentrated in the 15 largest cities – says Maciej Mazur, Managing Director of PSPA.
The full electromobility report can be found on the PSPA website.
Source: PSPA