European EV Charging Buildout (EAFO)
The installed base of electric-vehicle recharging points across Europe, per country over time - the European mirror of the US EV-charging buildout. From the European Alternative Fuels Observatory (EAFO/DG MOVE): the AFIR-methodology quarterly AC/DC split (2020→present) plus the pre-AFIR annual totals (2012-2019), stitched into one clean multi-country Parquet keyed by country code. Note: AFIR counts recharging POINTS (connectors), not stations/sites.
- Source
- EU EAFO
- Licence
- Redistributable open data
- Updates
- Quarterly
- Data through
- 2026-06-30
- Quality
- QC clean · 0 failures
- Format
- Apache Parquet + dictionary
Safe to train on
Built only from a named, redistributable official source under a documented open licence - not scraped web data. No copyright grey zone, no personal data. Ships machine-readable Croissant metadata (ML Commons - loads in Hugging Face / Kaggle / Google), an AI training-licence manifest documenting source, licence and provenance for your model's data governance, and a machine-readable data dictionary (drop it into an agent / RAG prompt so the model knows every column) - all inspectable before you buy.
What's included
- Cumulative recharging points per European country - EU27 + 30+ countries incl. UK, NO, CH
- AC / DC split and total; quarterly (2020→present) + annual back to 2012
- The European mobility-transition buildout signal; joins macro/energy by country code
- Counts recharging POINTS (connectors), not stations - documented in the product
- CC-BY-4.0 (EU) - commercial reuse with attribution
- Source: European Alternative Fuels Observatory (EAFO), © European Union
Schema
| Column | Type | Description | Filled | Distinct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| zone | str | Country (ISO-2, or EU27 aggregate) | 100.0% | 31 |
| ts | timestamp (UTC) | Quarter-end (AFIR) or year-end (pre-2020) | 100.0% | 34 |
| metric | str | AC / DC / Total recharging points | 100.0% | 3 |
| value | float | Cumulative recharging points | 100.0% | 2,002 |
| unit | str | Unit | 100.0% | 1 |
| res_min | int | Cadence (quarterly=131400 / annual=525600) | 100.0% | 2 |
Sample & preview
Every purchase ships as Apache Parquet with a data dictionary and the full QC report. A free sample (first rows + schema) is downloadable here - confirm fit before you buy. Source: EU EAFO (redistributable open data; attribution passes through - see our Licence).
Don't trust screenshots - drop the sample into your notebook right now.
import pandas as pd df = pd.read_parquet("european-ev-charging-buildout_sample.parquet") df.info() # typed columns, gap-aware, ready to join⬇ Download free Parquet sample or CSV for Excel
Coverage: 31 zones
AT · BE · BG · CH · CY · DE · DK · EE · ES · EU27 · FI · FR · GB · GR · HR · HU · IE · IS · IT · LT · LU · LV · MT · NL · NO · PL · PT · RO · SE · SI · SK
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