Italy enhances the charging network for car electricbut the gap with the EU objectives, the delay of the installations in the South and the conclusion of the impulse guaranteed by the PNRR throw shadows on the future. Motus-e reveals it, stating that a total of 64,391 points have been reached at the end of 2024, with an increase of 27% in a year and equal to 13 thousand new installations.
Still many funds from the PNRR available
But different critical issues persist in electric mobility; one above all, the PNRRwhere they were allocated 640 million euros for the public charging infrastructure, divided between 360 million for suburban stations and 279 million for urban ones, but only 96 million They found assignment, equal to 15% of the overall funds.
“The activation of the infrastructures set for December 2025 may have disincentive many companies to join the announcement. In addition, the unexpected reopening has caught several companies by surprise, which have not been able to organize themselves in time -explains Eugenio Sapora, General Manager of Electra Italia and a successful tenderer company for PNRR funds for the ultra -planoce charging columns on suburban roads -. The PNRR places specific criteria and a minimum quorum of charging infrastructures necessary to benefit from the funds, in the face of a funding rate not always high to make the investment attractive, especially in the most isolated areas and with fewer circulating electric vehicles “. Elements that, in general, represent further obstacles to the full realization of the sustainable mobility projects of the PNRR.
Another critical theme concerns the complexity of proceedings bureaucratic and the timing for the connection to the electricity grid. Currently, 16% of the infrastructures installed are not yet usable by end users, mainly for the failure to connect to the network by local energy distributors or the cause of other bureaucratic obstacles.
Also this year, the study compares the progress of Italy with those of the other main European markets. With 19 public charging points per 100 circulating electric cars, the Italian infrastructure is confirmed in an advantage position compared to France (14 points per 100 cars), Germany (8 points per 100 cars) and the United Kingdom (7 points per 100 cars). However, in the face of an electric market that represents about a third of the shares of these countries.
The regions with multiple charging columns
There Lombardy The leading region for charging infrastructure, with 11,317 active points, equal to 21% of the national total, is confirmed. Follow Piedmont And Lazioboth with 10%, while Veneto and Emilia-Romagna are 9%. Tuscany and Sicily occupy the sixth and seventh place respectively, with 3,320 and 2,735 charging points.
- Lombardy: 11,317;
- Piedmont: 5.607;
- Lazio: 5,288;
- Veneto: 5.044:
- Emilia-Romagna: 4.650;
- Tuscany: 3,320;
- Sicily: 2,735;
- Campania: 2.611;
- Trentino-Alto Adige: 1,912;
- Liguria: 1,640;
- Friuli-Venezia Giulia: 1,640;
- Sardinia: 1.509;
- Puglia: 1,491;
- Marche: 1,395;
- Abruzzo: 1,113;
- Calabria: 912;
- Umbria: 746;
- Valle d’Aosta: 636.
- Basilicata: 315;
- Molise: 212.
Also on the growth front in 2024, Lombardy leads the ranking with 3,531 new installations, followed by Lazio (+2.258), Piedmont (+982), Veneto (+966) and Sicily (+945). However, a strong gap in the southern regions remains, where only 23% of public columns was installed. Urban level, Naples is distinguished as the city with the greater density of charging points Compared to the surface, overcoming Turin and Milan.
Improves the presence in the highways
As for the motorway network, the data indicate that the accumulated delay has been partially filled: currently the charging points are 1,087, but if you consider those located within three kilometers from the outputs, the total number rises to 3,447.
Motus-E underlines that the Italian network has already reached the 75-80% of European objectives And it is positioned above France, Germany and the United Kingdom regarding the ratio between charging points and electric vehicles in circulation, as well as for the density of the charging points compared to the overall length of the road network.
