Quarterly Report on Electromobility in Bavaria Q1/2023

1) charging locations:
In Q1, an increase of a total of 224 charging locations with 797 charging points was recorded in Bavaria. At about 30 percent of the new charging locations, electric motorists also find fast chargers (DC). This again underscores the fact that fast-charging technology is playing an increasingly important role in the development of charging infrastructure. The share of newly built charging hubs with AC & DC charging points was 14.4 percent in the first quarter, exactly equal to the share of newly built DC-only charging locations.

2) Charging operations:
For the first time since Q2/2020, the number of charging operations carried out did not reach a new record. While the number of recorded charging operations increased by about 40 percent year-on-year to more than 1.2 million, charging operations decreased by about 7.5 percent compared to the previous quarter. The recorded charging operations were divided exactly 80 percent between AC charging operations and 20 percent between DC charging operations.

3) TOP 5 charging locations in Bavaria
The publicly accessible parking garage at the BMW site in Knorrstrasse in Munich, which now has 523 charging points, once again secured first place among the most-used charging locations in Bavaria with over 10,000 charging processes. Second place among the most used charging locations in Bavaria this quarter went to the EnBW fast charging park in Sonnenlängweg in Unterhaching. The following three places were again occupied by Ionity fast-charging sites on federal highways.

Electric vehicles:

The share of new registrations (BEV + PHEV) of electric vehicles in Bavaria was just over 18 percent in the past quarter. In particular, the share of newly registered plug-in hybrids declined significantly. This can be explained by pull-forward effects from the previous quarter, which can be primarily attributed to the discontinuation of vehicle subsidies for this vehicle category since the beginning of 2023. The number of chargeable vehicles per public charging point increased slightly in the first quarter. There are currently 30 vehicles (BEV + PHEV) per AC charging point in Bavaria. For DC charging points, the number is still more than twice as high at 62 vehicles (BEV).

The share of new registrations of BEVs in Bavaria was around 13 percent and of PHEVs only 4.8 percent. The largest shares of pure electric vehicles (BEVs) in new registrations were registered in the administrative districts of Lower (18 percent) and Middle Franconia (17 percent). Immediately behind with 16 percent of new registrations were the administrative districts of Upper Palatinate, Swabia and Lower Bavaria.

TOP 5 districts / cities:

Broken down to cities or. Broken down to districts, the district of Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim (Middle Franconia) landed in first place for the first time in the first quarter with 31 percent BEV new registrations. Second place was secured by the district of Amberg-Sulzbach (Upper Palatinate) with 29 percent, ahead of the district of Erlangen-Höchstadt (Middle Franconia) with 27 percent, which was thus able to take third place.

*** Assumptions:

1) The vehicle inventories are based on the inventory figures of the KBA at the beginning of the year and are still offset with a forecast of new registrations.

2) For the quotient of charging processes per charging point, we offset the total number of recorded charging processes with the number of charging points at which we obtain dynamic ("live") data. The ratio of dynamic charging points to the total number of charging points is over 80% for Bavaria.

3) The quarterly report documents the development of public charging infrastructure in Bavaria. The information on the development of these charging options therefore refers to purely publicly accessible charging locations and thus does not take into account charging points of closed user groups (e.g. charging points in private underground garages, on factory premises, etc.). A designation of purely publicly accessible charging infrastructure has not been possible so far for technical reasons, resulting in deviations from previous quarterly reports.