Andalusia, lagging behind in the deployment of publicly accessible charging points for electric vehicles.
With a network of 4,601 infrastructures of this type, the community is in third position nationally, below Catalonia and Madrid, despite its greater territorial extension
Andalusia, at the bottom of Spain in electromobility and with a fleet of vehicles with an average age of almost 15 years

Seville/Andalusia maintains a lagging position in the deployment of charging infrastructure for public access electric vehicles taking into account its territorial extension, with a network that totals 4,601 operating points until last September, which represents only 12.4 % of the total of Spain. With these figures, the community is placed in third place nationally, behind Catalonia, which accounts for 19.6% with 7,272 installations, and Madrid, which has 4,860 – 13.1% of the total.

By power intervals, the current Andalusian network consists of 3,149 slow charging equipment, 946 fast and 506 ultra-fast, according to data from the Business Association for the Development and Promotion of Electric Mobility (Aedive).

In relative terms, infrastructure of this type in Andalusia has increased by 22.7% so far this year, adding 856 new ones from January to September compared to the closing data for 2023, a percentage in line with the increase 22.3% of the national total. In the regional comparison, the Andalusian progress is lower than that recorded in Catalonia, where public access charging points have grown by 23.1% in the aforementioned period, although higher than that of Madrid (+19.3%).

However, putting the magnifying glass on the year-on-year evolution (September 2023-September 2024), Andalusia has begun to step on the accelerator, adding 1,317 new public accesses for refueling electric vehicles and growing by 40.1% – almost five points above the national average -, until reaching the current 4,601 points. The provinces with the most installations until the third quarter of this year are Málaga (966), Seville (892) and Cádiz (582), which account for more than 53% of the regional total.

In Spain, 37,136 points have been reached until last September, 35.4% more than a year ago. In the third quarter alone, 3,031 public access charging devices have been installed and commissioned nationwide, which represents an average of 1,010 per month and the highest year-on-year figure in the entire historical series, well above the average for the first semester of the year (more than 600 monthly).

National evolution
In one year (from September 2023 to September 2024) a total of 9,716 devices have been installed and activated, this year-on-year figure also being the highest number in the entire historical series. Of this amount, 69% of the charging points were equal to or greater than 22 kW, while high-power charging points (more than 22 kW) already account for 35% of the total. Those that registered the greatest growth in the third quarter were those from 50 kW to 250 kW (with a 126% year-on-year increase) and those over 250 kW (a 48% year-on-year increase).

In the national ‘top 3’ in terms of number of installations, the Andalusian community was the second that increased its network the most, with the aforementioned 40.1% year-on-year, behind Catalonia, which registered 41.1% more and 2,120 new points installed. In Madrid, the progress was 30.4%, with 1,134 new accesses.

Growing trend
According to Aedive, the evolution of the network in Spain “confirms the growing trend in this year to install high-power charging points in interurban environments, which also respond to the needs of users who do not have equipment of this type at home. “.

From Aedive, they explain that data from the European automotive association ACEA indicated last May that Spain was the sixth country in the deployment of public charging points in the European Union. In the opinion of Arturo Pérez de Lucia, general director of the association, this “destroys the myth that we do not have enough public charging points, something that accompanies the growth recorded in the fleet of electric vehicles in the month of September.”

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