This means that in August 2021 there were 11 electric cars per charging point.
Below you can learn more about the different types of chargers for electric cars, and the spread of chargers around the country.
* A charging point is the plug that is inserted in the car. The charging point is located in a charging stand, where there will usually be several charging points.
* There are three types of charger, normal charger, fast charger and lightning charger.
* A normal charger can charge an empty battery in 6 hours, and they are most often at residences, workplaces and parking lots in the public space. About 46 percent of the country’s 4,200 publicly available charging points are standard chargers.
* A fast charger can charge an empty battery in 30-60 minutes, and will most often be at malls. They make up about 50 percent of the publicly available charging points.
* A lightning charger can charge an empty battery in 10-30 minutes. They can most often be found at rest areas along motorways and petrol stations. As of August 31, they make up just four percent of the charging points.
* Frederiksberg Municipality is the one where there are the most charging points in relation to inhabitants. Here there are 2.27 charging points per 1000 inhabitants. Frederiksberg Municipality will be followed by Copenhagen, Bornholm, Samsø and Sønderborg.
* Faaborg-Midtfyn is the municipality with the fewest charging points per inhabitant. Here there are 0.04 charging points per 1000 inhabitants.
* The national average is 0.73 charging points per 1000 inhabitants.
* In Læsø, Allerød, Vallensbæk and Solrød municipalities there are no publicly available charging points.
* As of August 31, 2021, there are approximately 47,000 electric cars throughout the country. There has been a quadrupling over the last three years.
* Electric cars accounted for 19.2 percent of all newly registered cars in August 2021.
* The number of plug-in hybrid cars has more than doubled in the same period and there are now approximately 59,000 of that type of car in Denmark.
Source: Ministry of Transport
Source: The Nordic Page