Charging point fleet (IRVE)

Sharp disparities between departments

The same EV / charging point ratio as above, broken down by department: the fast-charging network is not evenly sized against the local EV fleet everywhere.

AC or DC charging?

National breakdown of charging points by current type. A charging point is classed as "fast charging" (DC) if it offers a Combo CCS or CHAdeMO connector.

Source: Fichier consolidé des bornes de recharge pour véhicules électriques (Etalab). Publicly accessible charging points declared under the IRVE scheme and consolidated by Etalab, excluding the private fleet (home, closed company premises).

Growth of the fleet over time

Cumulative count of charging points still recorded today, aggregated by declared commissioning year (implausible dates, before 2010, are excluded).

Source: Fichier consolidé des bornes de recharge pour véhicules électriques (Etalab). Publicly accessible charging points declared under the IRVE scheme and consolidated by Etalab, excluding the private fleet (home, closed company premises).

Methodology and licence

Scope

Charge points open to the public, declared under the IRVE schema and consolidated by Etalab (~100k charge points). Excludes the private fleet (homes, closed company sites) and undeclared points.

Regional breakdown

The region is derived from the department (extracted from the municipality's INSEE code, 2016 administrative boundaries). Points without a usable code (some overseas collectivities, missing code) are excluded from the regional breakdown but still counted in the national total.

AC / DC classification

A charge point is classed as "fast charging" (DC) if it offers a Combo CCS or CHAdeMO connector, and AC otherwise (Type 2 or domestic socket). The criterion is the connector type rather than a power threshold, which would produce false positives/negatives (high-power three-phase AC versus low-power DC).

Time cumulation

The monthly cumulative counts, month by month, the charge points whose commissioning date falls in that month. It is not a history of successive snapshots of the network, but a reconstruction from the declared commissioning date of points still listed today. Points commissioned and then removed before the current consolidation therefore don't appear.

Power brackets

Brackets of declared rated power: Slow ≤ 7.4 kW, Accelerated 7.4–22 kW, Fast 22–150 kW, Ultra-fast > 150 kW. Independent of the AC/DC classification by connector type.

Fast-charging threshold (100 kW)

A separate threshold counts charge points with declared rated power ≥ 100 kW, the usual definition of "fast charging" in market barometers. It situates the fully electric vehicle fleet against the public fast-charging network, independently of the bracket split shown in the "Charge-point power" chart.

Department matching (postal code fallback)

When the municipality's INSEE code is missing or cannot be matched, the department is inferred from the 5-digit postcode in the station address (first 2 digits, 3 for overseas). Corsica exception: 20xxx postcodes cannot reliably distinguish Corse-du-Sud (2A) from Haute-Corse (2B), so those points stay unmatched rather than being assigned arbitrarily.

Operators

Breakdown by operator (operator name, or brand name when missing), with normalised labels (roaming suffix removed, case harmonised). The top 20 operators by number of charge points are detailed, split by power bracket; the rest is aggregated into "Other".

Licence

Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0, published by Etalab / transport.data.gouv.fr (Fichier consolidé des bornes de recharge pour véhicules électriques)