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By the end of 2023, 100,000 electric charging stations had been installed in France, with a target of 500,000 by 2027.
The global market for electric vehicle (EV) charging stations is valued at over $20 billion, and is expected to grow at an annual rate of 25.5% until 2030.
The charging station market is driven by the growing adoption of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, particularly in China, the USA and South Korea, with France ranking fifth worldwide.
By 2022, there will be 2.7 million public charging points worldwide, an increase of 55% on 2021. Europe is rapidly developing its charging infrastructure.
Between 2020 and 2022, the number of electric cars sold in France rose from around 60,000 to over 150,000. The market share of electric cars is around 20%.
By 2030, France will have installed between 300,000 and 400,000 public charging stations to meet the needs of the 8 to 9 million electric vehicles on the road.
88% of the public charging stations installed have a power rating of less than 22 kW, which meets the need for slow recharging.
Some industry players
- ABB: Swiss multinational with a strong presence in the charging station market.
- Siemens: a global giant in electrical engineering and electronics, has carved out a place for itself in the electric vehicle recharging market.
- ChargePoint: a leading provider of complete charging network solutions.
- Tesla: famous for its luxury electric cars, also operates an exclusive network of Superchargers.
- Schneider Electric: industrial giant offers a wide range of EV recharging solutions.
- Engie: installs a vast network of charging stations in France
- Izivia, EDF subsidiary, installs charging stations
- ZEPlug, Powerdot, Ze-Watt, Driveco, Electric 55, Time2Plug, Easy Charge (Vinvi groupe), Logivolt are just some of the companies installing charging stations
- Ionity: a joint project by several carmakers to create a high-power recharging system for electric vehicles
- E-Totem: manufacturer of charging stations
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1 Market overview
1.1 Definition and scope of the study
A vehicle charging station is an infrastructure equipped with one or more charging points for recharging electric vehicles. It comprises the space needed to park a vehicle and other components, such as a charge management cabinet.
Worldwide, the market was valued at $19.67 billion in 2022, and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 25.5% until 2030. The countries with the largest number of charging stations are China, the USA and South Korea, with France occupying 5ᵉ position in the global ranking. However, when we look at the density of the charging station network, we see that it is the Netherlands and Norway that are ahead of the other countries. In Europe, the number of charging stations is rising ste adily, thanks to strong public policy incentives and the prospect of electric car sales far outstripping those of conventional cars in the medium term.
In France, the number of charging points has been rising sharply, particularly since 2020. The vast majority of these charging points are privately owned, with the remainder held by businesses. Demand is being driven by the recent surge in the number of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, which will account for 21% of the market by 2022. Territorial coverage of electric charging infrastructure is becoming an increasingly important issue for public authorities and automotive and energy companies.
The players' business model remains fragile, with profitability affected by increased competition. Players in the sector need to reach a significant critical mass to generate profits, as margins are still very low. If many players are positioning themselves in this promising market today, we can imagine that there will be a concentration phenomenon.
1.2 The global market
The global market for electric charging stations was estimated at $**.** billion in ****, and is expected to grow at a CAGR of **.*% to ****.
Projected development of the global market for electric charging stations World, **** - **** Source: ****
Currently, the majority of electric vehicle (***) charging needs are met by home chargers. However, to achieve ...
1.3 The European market in the process of structuring
The European Union's aim is to create a dense network of charging points for electric vehicles, comparable in convenience to those for gasoline-powered cars. A provisional agreement was reached on March **, **** to update EU rules on alternative fuel infrastructure. The agreement calls for the installation of fast charging stations (***) every ** km ...
1.4 A flourishing French market
In ****, the number of public charging points in France exceeded **,***, marking a significant ***% increase on ****. In the first five months of ****, more than **,*** new charging points were installed, meeting and exceeding the long-awaited target of ***,*** charging points[***].
The "***,*** charging points plan", launched by the government in ****, aimed to set up ***,*** public ...
2 Demand analysis
2.1 Terminal demand and its determinants
Demand for electric charging stations in France is growing rapidly. To meet demand from the *.* million electric vehicles expected to be on the roads of mainland France by ****, the number of public charging stations will need to rise to ***,*** by ****. This expansion will include both public and private charging infrastructures. It ...
2.2 Growth in the number of electric cars in France
Despite a slow start due to factors such as high cost, lack of recharging infrastructure and limited public understanding, the number of electric vehihicles registered in France rose sharply during ****, despite the pandemic, the economic crisis and the shortage of semiconductors[***]. As shown in the graph below, the number of electric ...
2.3 A network of charging stations that is expanding, but still unevenly distributed
Initially scheduled for completion by the end of ****, the French government's objective of deploying ***,*** electric charging stations across the country has been postponed to **** due to the economic climate. The government's aim is to enable drivers to recharge their vehicles to **% in ** minutes, encouraging new habits that are more respectful of ...
2.4 Service to be improved
Afirev (***) has been publishing quality results for the French public charging network every year since ****. We will use these results in this section to estimate user satisfaction.
level of use of public charging sites in **** France, **** - ****, in Source: ****
The graph above shows that utilization rates are falling across all charging ...
3 Market structure
3.1 Intervenants sur le marché des bornes de recharge
Le premier type d’acteur intervenant dans la chaîne de valeur des bornes de recharge électriques est le fabricant. Le marché des bornes de recharge fait également intervenir d'autres types d'acteurs. Le tableau suivant donne un aperçu des différentes catégories d’entreprises et de leur activité sur ...
3.2 Government assistance plans
Advenir program:
Created in ****, the Advenir program is steered by Avere-France and aims to install charging stations using the concept of energy certificates, and in particular to finance ***,*** new charging points by ****, with a budget of *** million euros.
The scheme offers a range of incentives for the installation of charging points. ...
3.3 Un paysage entrepreneurial français dynamique
Le segment de l’exploitation des bornes a vu apparaître un nombre important de startups avec un grand nombre de levées de fonds effectués par des entreprises proposant une grande variété de services. Le tableau suivant en donne un aperçu.
Zoom sur les fabricants de bornes ...
4 Offer analysis
4.1 Typology of terminals available in France
With regard to plugs for recharging electric and hybrid vehicles, the European Commission has designated the following two standards:
Type * for alternating current (***) charging at slow and accelerated charging stations; Combo CCS (***) charging at fast and ultra-fast charging stations.
The following chart shows the breakdown of charging stations open to the ...
4.2 Price overview
First of all, an electric vehicle can be recharged at an outdoor charging station using the following access methods:
access badge, which may be specific to a network of charging stations or managed by a third-party service (***) ; SMS or interactive voice server; credit card; application or QR code (***); directly from the ...
5 Regulations
5. Current regulations on charging stations
The French Ministry of Ecological Transition and Solidarity (***) includes the following provisions concerning charging stations:
The government has introduced a series of measures to promote the deployment of charging infrastructure for electric vehicles. These measures focus on three main areas:
support for infrastructure installation, regulation, promotion of electric vehicles.
According to ...
6 Positioning the players
6. Segmentation
- Total Energies
- Schneider Electric
- Bouygues Energie et Service (Equans)
- Engie
- Ionity
- Legrand Groupe
- Nexans groupe
- Indigo Parking Group
- ZePlug
- Ziggy (Ford)
- Powerdot
- Wattpark
- ZE-Watt
- Grolleau
- E-Totem
- Izivia (EDF)
- Driveco
- Electric 55 Charging
- Enedis
- Rexel
- Mobilize (Renault Groupe)
- Ortec Group
- Swish
- Time2plug
- Easy Charge (Vinci)
- Logivolt
- SPIE
- Siemens
- DBT-CEV Groupe
- Tesla
- EDF
- Mob-Energy
- Freshmile
- Gireve
- QONEXIO PCE services
- Allego
- Greenspot Enersoft
List of charts presented in this market study
- Ranking of countries with the most charging stations for electric vehicles
- Global market forecast for electric charging stations
- European network of public charging stations
- Growth in the number of electric cars in Europe
- Trend in the number of charging stations in Europe
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Latest news
Engie accelerates battery development in the United States - 25/09/2024
- 1. Storage capacity added by Engie in the U.S. since January: 1 gigawatt (GW), bringing total U.S. installations to 1.8 GW.
- 2. Total capacity of Engie installations worldwide: 2.3 GW.
- 3. Engie's renewable generation capacity in the U.S.: 6 GW.
- 4. Percentage of flexibility required*: 20 to 30% for 100 megawatts of installed generation capacity.
Nuclear power: ways to finance France's €67 billion program - 17/09/2024
- - Total estimated cost of the EPR2 program: 67.4 billion euros.
- - Expenditure already committed and planned by EDF: 3 billion euros spent up to the end of 2024, a further 2 billion planned in 2025, and 3 billion in 2026.
- - Unlike the UK model, there are no plans to charge French consumers via their electricity bills during the construction of these plants.
- - No recourse to private funds is envisaged to finance the EPR2s, because France has just renationalized EDF.
- - French public finances would take on a substantial share of the construction risks. France is considering a zero-interest loan for the duration of the construction period to reduce the project's financing costs.
- - EDF intends to finance half of the EPR2 project, in line with a desire not to opt for a 100% regulated model and to retain ownership of these plants over the long term.
EDF to produce Arabelle turbines itself - 29/07/2024
- - Number of employees transferred to EDF: A total of 3,300 employees, including 2,500 in France, affected by EDF's control of General Electric's nuclear activities inherited from Alstom.
- - Capacities of Arabelle turbines: These are claimed to be the most powerful in the world, powering the latest generation of French EPR nuclear reactors as well as Russian Rosatom's VVERs.
- - EDF's stake in Framatome: EDF became a 75% shareholder in Framatome following the breakup of Areva in 2015.
- - To integrate GE's Steam Power division, EDF created a new subsidiary called Arabelle Solutions
Casino and Total Energies renew their contract for more than 1,000 service stations in France - 26/07/2024
- Renewal of the supply contract between Casino and TotalEnergies for more than 1,000 service stations in France.
- - Duration of partnership: 5 years, from October 1, 2024.
- - Casino present in nearly 140 Total service stations on freeways.
- - Carrefour plans to have 350 stations by 2024.
- - Leclerc has 23 freeway service areas.
- - Carrefour has won two tenders with Shell and TotalEnergies to supply 117 additional stores.
TotalEnergies and SSE to launch an electric vehicle charging company in the UK and Ireland - 16/07/2024
- - Joint venture name: Source
- - Joint venture partners: TotalEnergies (France) and SSE (Scottish & Southern Energy, UK)
- - Objective: To achieve a 20% share of the fast-charging market for electric vehicles in Great Britain and Ireland
- - Number of fast-charging stations to be deployed over the next ( years: 3,000 stations
- - 150-kilowatt (kW) DC-powered fast-charging stations
- - Full recharge time: Between 30 minutes and one hour
- - Cost of kiosk deployment: Approx. 300 million euros
- - renewable energy, supplied by TotalEnergies and SSE
Engie persuades BASF to acquire biogas for the long term - 05/07/2024
- Biogas contract duration: 7 years
- Delivery location: Ludwigshafen in Germany and Antwerp in Belgium
- - Biomethane use: Replacement of fossil gas in various production processes (automotive industry, packaging, detergents, textiles, etc.)
- - biomethane is almost three times more expensive than fossil gas
- - Number of similar contracts signed by Engie: 5, including one with chemical company Arkema
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