Data 2016-07 → 2026-08

Electric vehicle charging patterns

Where and how electric vehicles are charged in France: 24-hour load profile, usage trends and session reliability, by location type.

Based on charging points in the Advenir / ADEME programme, not the entire French charging network.

Source: National charging data observatory (Advenir × ADEME)

Session success rate

94.1%

+0.2 ptvs August 2025

All location types, August 2026

Charging sessions

624,597

Total, August 2026

Load curve: power drawn over 24 hours

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Average power drawn over 24 hours by charging location type: Business, private, peak at 7h (3.6 kW), Business, public-access, peak at 17h (12.9 kW), Local authority, peak at 16h (8.8 kW), Multi-family residential, peak at 2h (4 kW), Heavy-goods vehicles, peak at 10h (16.3 kW).
Hour	Business, private	Business, public-access	Local authority	Multi-family residential	Heavy-goods vehicles
0h	1.5	3.8	3.9	4	8.3
1h	1.4	3.4	3.8	4	8.3
2h	1.5	3.2	3.7	4	8.6
3h	1.8	3.6	3.7	4	9
4h	2.4	4.6	3.9	3.8	8.4
5h	3.1	6.1	4.6	3.6	7.6
6h	3.5	7.8	6.1	3.1	8.5
7h	3.6	8.8	7.5	2.5	9.7
8h	3.5	9.4	8.1	2	11.3
9h	3.4	10	8.3	2.2	13.2
10h	3.2	10.7	8.5	2.5	16.3
11h	3	11	8.5	2.7	16.1
12h	3	10.6	8.3	3	13.7
13h	3	10.5	8.3	3.2	12.7
14h	3	10.8	8.4	3.2	13
15h	2.9	11.5	8.6	3	12.7
16h	2.7	12.4	8.8	2.9	11.5
17h	2.5	12.9	8.6	2.7	10.1
18h	2.2	11.9	8	2.7	9.4
19h	2	10.3	7.3	2.9	9.1
20h	1.9	8.6	6.4	3.2	9
21h	1.7	7	5.5	3.5	8.8
22h	1.6	5.6	4.7	3.7	8.5
23h	1.5	4.5	4.2	3.8	8.3

Source: National charging data observatory (Advenir × ADEME). Based on charging points in the Advenir / ADEME programme, not the entire French charging network.

Usage trends

Number of sessions and energy delivered per month. Toggle between the two views below.

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Monthly change in the number of sessions by location type between 2016-07 and 2026-08.
Month	Business, private	Business, public-access	Multi-family residential	Local authority	Heavy-goods vehicles
2016-07	23	—	—	—	—
2016-08	20	—	—	—	—
2016-09	56	8	—	—	—
2016-10	99	—	24	—	—
2016-11	127	16	50	—	—
2016-12	214	4	39	—	—
2017-01	382	3	85	—	—
2017-02	409	23	74	—	—
2017-03	635	19	121	—	—
2017-04	619	15	184	—	—
2017-05	1,057	144	229	—	—
2017-06	929	277	392	—	—
2017-07	871	387	380	—	—
2017-08	895	460	268	—	—
2017-09	1,844	676	166	—	—
2017-10	1,911	517	115	—	—
2017-11	2,014	565	188	—	—
2017-12	2,540	896	629	—	—
2018-01	3,275	893	854	—	—
2018-02	3,055	833	823	20	—
2018-03	3,835	981	724	156	—
2018-04	3,933	1,017	758	66	—
2018-05	3,334	1,094	1,112	56	—
2018-06	5,714	1,228	1,046	66	—
2018-07	5,816	1,668	919	87	—
2018-08	4,630	2,203	1,084	85	—
2018-09	8,054	3,690	894	199	—
2018-10	9,547	4,458	1,018	282	—
2018-11	10,206	4,773	2,044	360	—
2018-12	10,583	5,955	2,139	393	—
2019-01	14,441	6,780	2,344	483	—
2019-02	13,592	9,243	1,739	505	—
2019-03	14,731	6,234	1,476	663	—
2019-04	14,702	6,928	1,686	565	—
2019-05	13,717	7,008	1,064	656	—
2019-06	14,727	7,782	1,319	871	—
2019-07	17,939	8,828	1,287	947	—
2019-08	12,912	8,641	893	855	—
2019-09	18,464	9,911	1,369	1,094	—
2019-10	18,857	10,920	1,497	1,419	—
2019-11	16,870	12,298	1,481	1,556	—
2019-12	20,582	45,783	1,627	1,748	—
2020-01	23,567	14,851	2,574	1,741	—
2020-02	33,109	14,616	2,499	1,669	—
2020-03	20,154	9,277	1,847	1,203	—
2020-04	11,176	2,342	760	495	—
2020-05	13,809	8,695	1,506	1,136	—
2020-06	20,242	12,520	1,995	1,693	—
2020-07	23,388	17,879	1,905	2,721	—
2020-08	13,256	20,156	1,716	2,880	—
2020-09	24,173	22,021	1,463	3,354	—
2020-10	25,175	25,754	2,101	3,419	—
2020-11	20,066	17,081	1,376	3,327	—
2020-12	19,951	26,796	1,513	4,585	—
2021-01	25,063	29,909	1,623	4,975	—
2021-02	23,767	25,138	1,817	4,557	—
2021-03	25,990	30,436	2,164	5,478	—
2021-04	24,599	28,340	1,415	4,911	—
2021-05	26,735	35,564	1,451	5,925	—
2021-06	48,153	46,490	1,681	5,825	—
2021-07	47,320	53,992	1,433	7,624	—
2021-08	33,737	49,550	1,088	9,206	—
2021-09	64,834	64,634	1,514	11,715	—
2021-10	72,839	79,474	1,522	14,401	—
2021-11	76,520	86,203	1,669	16,182	—
2021-12	82,902	101,860	1,455	17,919	—
2022-01	89,673	122,240	1,583	18,892	—
2022-02	91,581	143,954	1,554	18,510	2
2022-03	86,720	91,734	2,023	22,871	14
2022-04	76,288	75,336	2,822	26,030	84
2022-05	83,799	78,783	2,936	31,752	98
2022-06	90,227	85,805	2,990	34,287	109
2022-07	79,055	109,369	2,715	40,958	222
2022-08	71,146	115,072	2,148	38,373	118
2022-09	107,904	162,076	3,333	38,184	176
2022-10	122,313	148,370	4,023	48,146	232
2022-11	131,882	151,093	4,045	47,670	302
2022-12	142,156	179,549	3,576	59,068	341
2023-01	146,854	185,205	4,540	60,956	343
2023-02	129,029	175,723	4,196	58,202	388
2023-03	159,337	206,355	5,063	66,031	430
2023-04	138,361	216,831	4,892	65,909	435
2023-05	134,073	218,160	6,820	65,121	543
2023-06	170,055	224,624	10,468	69,651	961
2023-07	145,893	255,592	16,876	76,368	988
2023-08	135,314	279,796	25,927	79,673	935
2023-09	165,618	235,816	34,291	72,941	1,365
2023-10	177,149	264,475	66,763	77,820	2,187
2023-11	229,929	284,100	65,195	82,779	3,070
2023-12	209,705	319,341	33,699	100,093	2,884
2024-01	226,888	304,773	40,774	99,367	3,894
2024-02	214,504	283,262	40,055	93,659	4,122
2024-03	210,584	305,302	46,851	100,313	5,477
2024-04	198,403	301,279	46,633	90,277	5,328
2024-05	183,553	322,247	50,652	96,470	6,986
2024-06	193,874	315,246	54,624	99,330	7,954
2024-07	197,619	373,340	53,843	114,973	8,670
2024-08	133,000	379,149	45,452	118,750	7,253
2024-09	192,559	328,146	63,046	107,920	7,978
2024-10	207,339	349,653	68,236	116,659	8,987
2024-11	185,824	345,986	73,928	126,061	7,413
2024-12	173,309	364,009	79,694	141,231	8,300
2025-01	200,293	343,333	85,397	133,572	9,949
2025-02	183,451	317,809	77,577	123,932	8,706
2025-03	191,842	334,731	87,277	138,613	8,715
2025-04	175,472	327,831	81,589	108,217	7,842
2025-05	152,947	323,176	80,312	115,434	8,121
2025-06	178,576	365,564	82,083	124,283	7,864
2025-07	168,477	381,479	75,880	149,838	7,950
2025-08	115,925	367,794	51,136	137,288	9,165
2025-09	189,571	328,145	81,007	143,217	10,343
2025-10	192,367	381,770	81,409	151,781	10,286
2025-11	165,041	351,258	85,391	151,266	8,892
2025-12	147,454	369,686	85,984	156,460	8,574
2026-01	158,304	331,294	82,119	149,841	8,324
2026-02	147,488	281,703	70,667	132,038	8,517
2026-03	167,942	312,362	6,411	149,517	9,562
2026-04	152,227	342,081	73,761	149,024	9,325
2026-05	144,790	348,353	76,089	150,728	9,019
2026-06	187,029	356,269	77,739	142,545	10,801
2026-07	161,035	315,265	74,711	140,743	9,598
2026-08	114,557	323,972	58,087	119,800	8,181

Source: National charging data observatory (Advenir × ADEME). Based on charging points in the Advenir / ADEME programme, not the entire French charging network.

Session reliability

Share of sessions completed successfully, by location type.

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Session success rate by location type: Business, private 93.2%, Business, public-access 93.3%, Local authority 91%, Multi-family residential 81.9%, Heavy-goods vehicles 82.2%.
Location type	Successful sessions	Total sessions	Success rate
Business, private	9,139,924	9,804,991	93.2%
Business, public-access	15,017,599	16,102,403	93.3%
Local authority	5,029,014	5,523,505	91%
Multi-family residential	2,068,986	2,525,120	81.9%
Heavy-goods vehicles	228,667	278,323	82.2%

Source: National charging data observatory (Advenir × ADEME). Based on charging points in the Advenir / ADEME programme, not the entire French charging network.

Regional temporal profiles

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Region

Energy distribution across the day

Share of the day's energy delivered in each hour, for the selected region (all location types combined).

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Distribution of charging energy across 24 hours for France (Advenir × ADEME): peak at 9:00 (7.4%).
Hour	Energy share	Average power
0h	1.4%	3.4 kW
1h	1.4%	3.3 kW
2h	1.4%	3.2 kW
3h	1.4%	3.3 kW
4h	1.7%	3.6 kW
5h	2.4%	4.1 kW
6h	4%	4.8 kW
7h	5.8%	5.3 kW
8h	7%	5.6 kW
9h	7.4%	5.9 kW
10h	7.3%	6.2 kW
11h	7%	6.2 kW
12h	6.8%	6 kW
13h	6.8%	6.1 kW
14h	6.7%	6.3 kW
15h	6.3%	6.8 kW
16h	5.8%	7.5 kW
17h	4.9%	7.9 kW
18h	3.9%	7.4 kW
19h	3.1%	6.5 kW
20h	2.5%	5.6 kW
21h	2%	4.7 kW
22h	1.7%	4 kW
23h	1.5%	3.6 kW

Charging by day of week

Number of sessions by day of the week, for the selected region.

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Number of charging sessions by day of the week for France (Advenir × ADEME): Monday 5,445,503 sessions, Tuesday 5,470,188 sessions, Wednesday 5,352,623 sessions, Thursday 5,561,751 sessions, Friday 5,743,559 sessions, Saturday 3,929,706 sessions, Sunday 2,731,012 sessions.
Day	Sessions	Energy (kWh)	Success rate
Monday	5,445,503	104,924,588	92.7%
Tuesday	5,470,188	100,749,579	92.2%
Wednesday	5,352,623	98,407,355	92.2%
Thursday	5,561,751	102,345,289	91.7%
Friday	5,743,559	107,682,659	92.5%
Saturday	3,929,706	73,639,601	91.1%
Sunday	2,731,012	54,936,813	90.3%

Seasonality across the year

Energy delivered by month of the year (all years of the period combined), for the selected region.

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Charging energy delivered by month of the year for France (Advenir × ADEME): Jan 54,770,401 kWh, Feb 51,491,554 kWh, Mar 53,859,076 kWh, Apr 53,135,802 kWh, May 53,887,479 kWh, Jun 59,049,470 kWh, Jul 61,425,923 kWh, Aug 57,096,026 kWh, Sep 44,631,573 kWh, Oct 48,956,736 kWh, Nov 50,291,451 kWh, Dec 54,090,396 kWh.
Month	Energy (kWh)	Sessions
Jan	54,770,401	2,942,251
Feb	51,491,554	2,748,117
Mar	53,859,076	2,842,201
Apr	53,135,802	2,780,788
May	53,887,479	2,815,254
Jun	59,049,470	3,065,908
Jul	61,425,923	3,156,871
Aug	57,096,026	2,902,546
Sep	44,631,573	2,513,769
Oct	48,956,736	2,755,314
Nov	50,291,451	2,776,097
Dec	54,090,396	2,935,226

29 sessions without a region code are counted only in the national aggregate.

Source: National charging data observatory (Advenir × ADEME). Based on charging points in the Advenir / ADEME programme, not the entire French charging network.

Electric vehicle charging patterns

Load curve: power drawn over 24 hours

Usage trends

Session reliability

Regional temporal profiles

Energy distribution across the day

Charging by day of week

Seasonality across the year

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