Current: EnBW far ahead of Tesla in fast electric vehicle charging, Ionity has the highest utilization rate
Image: ChargePointRadar
The data service provider ChargePoint Radar released an analysis of Germany’s public electric vehicle charging market, analyzing status data from 24.5 million charging sessions between July and September at 175,000 charging stations. For fast DC charging, no provider had as many users as EnBW, which also leads significantly in the number of charging stations in Germany. Tesla’s Superchargers were the second most popular destination for electric vehicles needing fast charging, while Ionity’s relatively few stations were the busiest.
EnBW Used Far More Than Tesla
Tesla reported at the beginning of this month that there are now over 9,000 Supercharger stations worldwide with more than 85,000 charging ports. According to a charging app, 329 of these electric vehicle charging locations with 3,979 ports are in Germany, placing it fourth or second among major DC fast charger providers; almost all Tesla locations can now also be used by other electric vehicles. EnBW, which surpassed Tesla in the number of stations during 2022, is the largest provider with 8,789 ports at 1,041 stations.
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A very similar pattern is seen in the distribution of DC charging sessions in Q3 2026, as reported by ChargePointRadar. According to the data, 28.6 percent of these sessions took place at EnBW, far ahead of Tesla with a 15.2 percent share. Ionity came in third with 8.1 percent, having been an early alternative to Tesla for fast electric vehicle charging as a joint venture of German automakers. Aral Pulse accounted for the fourth highest number of visits at 7.7 percent, while Shell Recharge, another well-known brand, had a 3.4 percent share.
Ionity has the highest utilization rate
This order roughly corresponds to the number of electric vehicle charging stations offered by each provider. An exception is Ionity, which has relatively few infrastructure facilities with 1564 DC chargers at 198 locations in Germany, yet still ranked third in terms of usage. This is due to its much higher utilization rate of 894 electric vehicle charges per charger. Tesla Superchargers were also heavily used, with 659.5 charging sessions each. Fastned ranks third in terms of utilization rate, followed by EnBW with 513 (see chart above).
The most used DC charging station in Germany, according to the study, is a Tesla Supercharger: At the location on the A7 near Bispingen, there were 43,140 charging sessions in Q3 2026, which translates to 1,078.5 sessions per of the 40 chargers there. Another Tesla station ranking second in this list is Busdorf, also located on the A7 in the north, along with the next two stations in the top 5, operated by Aral pulse and EnBW.
The AC market is less concentrated
As ChargePointRadar further notes, the market for DC fast charging stations (i.e., high-power charging) is much more concentrated than that for slower AC charging. In the DC charging segment, EnBW, Tesla, Ionity, Aral pulse, and Shell Recharge together accounted for 63 percent of all charging sessions, compared to only 18.2 percent in the AC segment. Meanwhile, fast superchargers and similar facilities are the primary power source for electric vehicles in Germany, as they were used in 70.9 percent of all recorded charging sessions.
