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In-depth analysis of the EV charging market — economics, consolidation, and what comes next.

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Is Chinese charging coming to Europe? And if so, how?

October 27, 2026

The one time a Chinese charging company signed to buy a European one, it walked away, and a Stockholm tribunal has since made it pay. We mapped every Chinese move into European charging we could find: little buying, a lot of hardware, a few carmaker networks, and a price war at home pushing harder every quarter. Four scenarios for what happens next.

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Europe has 31 EVs per fast-charging port. America has 72

By Chargalytics · October 20, 2026

We put Paren’s North American numbers next to our European ones. Europe built its fast chargers ahead of the cars, and America built behind them and gets busier chargers for it. Where each market sits on the adoption curve, what break-even really means, what drivers pay, and how much more building would pay off.

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How much would you pay to save 5 minutes: Why we think faster charging is overrated

By Chargalytics · October 6, 2026

Geely is installing 2.25 MW chargers in China and looking for partners in Germany. On Europe’s fast chargers, the average session lasts 27 minutes and draws about 60 kW, whatever the charger is rated. We worked out what a megawatt saves, what it costs per minute, and what the grid thinks of it.

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The anatomy of a vacation: finding Norway’s autumn break without a school calendar

September 29, 2026

Half of Norway’s schoolchildren are off this week. We worked out which half from road counters and fast chargers alone, then checked against the school calendars. Seven counties out of seven, a couple of honest misses, and a Sunday that never happened.

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Where Europe's electric trucks will stop: the truck charging market, mapped to 2035

By Chargalytics · September 15, 2026

Sixty truck models, 730 reserved plugs, and a driving-time rule that fixes where every truck must stop. We put supply and demand on one map of 80 000 km of European motorway, year by year to 2035. The megawatt hubs the market needs are fewer than the lobby says, and in more specific places.

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Europe's most reliably parked power plant keeps different hours in every market

September 8, 2026

Supply, demand, and what happens when they meet. We measured plugged-in hours on 408 000 public Type 2 bays in eleven countries and scaled them to the fleet; sized the two pools a car can sell into today, the reserve auctions and the household bill; traced how volatility, inertia and 80 GW of batteries move those pools to 2030; and ran three scenarios for what a car earns. A few hundred euros, mostly as a saving, and the frequency slice is heading for the floor.

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August's charging peak lasted one Saturday. Then everyone parked.

September 2, 2026

France's fast chargers hit 26.8% on Saturday 1 August, the busiest day of the summer, and spent the rest of the month coming down. Italy peaked a week later and took Ferragosto off. The Nordic sites that ran hot in July handed almost all of it back.

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The third plug is worth more than the twelfth

By Chargalytics · August 26, 2026

Kempower says plug count drives charging site utilization. The direction is right, the statistics wobble, and a 1917 telephone model shows exactly where the argument runs out. We ran it on 8 966 European DC sites.

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Europe mandated Plug&Charge. Nobody can say where it works.

August 19, 2026

AFIR made ISO 15118-2 compulsory on 8 January 2026. Germany's federal registry lists 1 018 of 31 865 public charging sites as Plug&Charge-capable, Ionity declares one site out of 61, and a relay attack on the standard lands at USENIX this year. Meanwhile Autocharge, which has none of the security, keeps working.

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Europe's charging network survived July. 145 sites didn't.

By Chargalytics · August 5, 2026

Between 6 July and 2 August, load across almost 21 000 fast-charging bays in five European countries ran 53% above spring. 145 sites spent their peak hours effectively full, seven times as many as in May — and most of them were out of town.

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The Mer-Eviny merger: who got the better deal?

By Chargalytics · July 12, 2026

We used our Pulse methodology to independently value the Mer and Eviny networks being merged. The data suggests a 25 percentage point gap between operational value and deal terms.

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The Consolidation Game: What Do Future CPOs Look Like?

By Ole Henrik Hannisdahl · March 4, 2026

Europe's CPO market has entered consolidation: Utilities and oil majors are selling, infrastructure funds and fuel retailers are buying, and property control is becoming the decisive moat. This analysis maps likely winners, likely sellers, and when profitability can emerge as BEV-per-fast-charger density rises.

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What does it take for a CPO to be profitable?

By Ole Henrik Hannisdahl · July 24, 2023

Out of all the companies out there owning and operating charging networks, none are profitable, and most burn through cash at an alarming rate. Yet, we see the market pricing a CPO at 27.5 times book value, and analysts’ price targets implying a whopping 73. What does it take for a CPO to make money in the long run? What do we have to believe in to justify these valuations? In this article, we break down the main components of a generic CPO financial model to try to answer these questions.

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