Denmark’s public EV charging network reached 50,000 public charging points and 7,000 ultra-fast chargers, according to data shared on Monday by the Federation of Danish Motorists (FDM) consumer economist Ilyas Dogru on X.
The country operated just over 30,000 public charging points a year ago, Dogru said, putting the year-over-year increase at roughly 67%.
Mobility Portal had reported 47,183 charging points as of August 2025.
Dogru said the expansion has closely tracked the growth of the country’s EV fleet. “In 2023, 2024, and 2025, there have been roughly 11 electric vehicles per charging point,” he wrote on LinkedIn.
He described the buildout as “proactive” and “ahead of demand,” noting that Denmark already operates more than twice as many fast chargers as the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) estimated the country would need by 2030 to support 1 million EVs.
A 2022 DTU study projected Denmark would require approximately 67,000 total charge points by 2030 to meet that target — a figure the country is now approaching six years early, though the majority of its current network consists of slower AC chargers.
Asked whether Denmark has overinvested, Dogru said the country’s 566,000 EVs could double within three years, and that going forward, the focus should shift from the number of charging points to their power output and placement.
Clever Dominates
FDM data shows Clever is Denmark’s largest charging operator by a wide margin, with approximately 16,000 charge points across more than 2,300 sites — roughly a third of the national total.
Norlys ranks second with about 9,400 points, followed by OK, E.ON, and EWII.
The vast majority of Denmark’s network consists of normal chargers rated at 22 kW or below. Of the 7,000 ultra-fast chargers exceeding 100 kW, Clever operates 1,293 and Norlys 946, together accounting for nearly a third of the country’s high-speed capacity.
Tesla, which operates more than 20,000 Superchargers across over 1,500 locations in Europe, ranks just ninth in Denmark with 754 charge points — behind utilities, energy cooperatives, and convenience store chain Circle K.
Chinese Automakers
Separately, Chinese automakers are moving to build proprietary charging networks in Europe.
BYD executive vice president Stella Li told Euronews earlier this month that the company aims to invest in approximately 3,000 fast-charging stations across the region by year-end.
XPeng plans to install its own 1,000 kW chargers across Europe, with the first units operational by year-end, FDM reported two weeks ago.
No passenger car currently on sale in Europe can draw the full output, but the deployment signals the automaker’s ambitions for its next-generation battery architecture.
Denmark will receive the chargers “slightly later” than other markets due to its already deep fast-charging network, with the first Danish stations expected by late 2026.
Danish EV Adoption
At the end of last month, FDM reported that the number of electric vehicles in Denmark surpassed the number of diesel cars for the first time — a milestone Dogru attributed to lower prices, policy certainty, and the rapid expansion of the charging network.
Denmark now has the second-highest EV penetration rate in the world behind Norway.
More than 60% of new car registrations in the country are electric, according to industry data.
In January, 12,803 passenger cars were registered in Denmark, an 18.2% year-over-year increase, according to Mobility Denmark.
Battery electric vehicles accounted for 10,618 of those — 82.9% of the total, or roughly four in five new registrations.
Mobility Denmark cited the delay of planned EV tax increases — originally set for January — as a key driver of the BEV sales surge.
Denmark’s government has set a target of 1 million green vehicles on the road by 2030.
At the current pace of fleet growth, the country appears well positioned to approach that figure, though the gradual phase-in of higher registration taxes on EVs — set to rise incrementally through 2035 — could slow adoption in the coming years.
