China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) has revealed that the country is now home to 18.645 million charging points.
In a short note published on its Chinese-language website on Wednesday, the NEA said that, as at the end of October, the number of charging points – what it refers to as individual “guns” – had increased by 54 per cent from the same period in 2024.
Of the 18.645 million charging points, 4.533 million are public charging ‘guns’, a year-over-year increase of 39.5 per cent, and 14.112 million are private charging ‘guns’, a year-over-year increase of 59.4 per cent.
The registered power capacity of all China’s EV charging points is 124 million kilovolt-amperes (kVa).
To put the number of chargers in perspective, data published in July by Car News China pegged the number of ‘new energy vehicles’ (NEVs) – a term covering both battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid EVs (PHEVs) – at 36.9 million, with BEVs accounting for around 69.2 per cent.
That works out to be around two cars per every EV charging point, and around 8 cars per every public charging point.
