Electric cars: Munich at the top in Germany
Most electric cars in Germany are registered in Munich. This was the result of a report by the Federal Motor Transport Authority.
Munich – Munich city is nationwide the registration district with the most electric cars. With a total of 35,127 purely battery-powered electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids, the Bavarian state capital even beats Berlin, which is more than twice the size, according to current figures from the Federal Motor Transport Authority as of January 1, 2022. When it comes to the share of electric cars in the vehicle population, however, Ingolstadt with 7.0 percent and the district of Munich with 5.1 are ahead of Munich city, which has 4.7 percent.
Munich: Most electric cars in Germany – twice as many as Berlin
However, it must be taken into account that in the statistics Ingolstadt and Munich, as the home of Audi and BMW respectively, benefit from vehicles registered to the two car manufacturers. The car rental company Sixt should also play a role for Munich Land. Starnberg with 3.9 percent, the cities of Aschaffenburg and Schweinfurt with 3.7 percent each, the district of Erlangen-Höchstadt with 3.5 percent, Regensburg city ( 3.3), Würzburg city (3.2) and the district of Ebersberg with 3.1 percent.
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Munich: Germany’s leader in e-car registrations
The lowest proportion of e-cars, on the other hand, can be found in the districts of Kronach with 1.5 percent and in Cham and Straubing-Bogen with 1.6 percent each. The Bavarian average is 2.6 percent – 0.2 percentage points more than in Germany. The Free State is also slightly above average when it comes to the supply of public charging points. According to a study by the state-owned KfW bank, 21.9 vehicles have to share a charging point in Bavaria. Nationwide there are 23. Nevertheless, in a survey by the institute, 58.8 percent of the households surveyed in Bavaria named a lack of public charging options as an obstacle to buying an electric car themselves. That is slightly more than the national average (56.0).
According to KfW, the number of electric cars nationwide has grown three times faster than the number of public charging points in the past two years. “The charging infrastructure must now keep pace with the dynamic development of electric cars in order to make the switch to electromobility attractive,” said Fritzi Köhler-Geib, Chief Economist at KfW.