More and more people are choosing to buy an electric car. As a result, the demand for electric car chargers is also growing. In Europe, you can find far more drivers of electric cars than in Poland, so the infrastructure is more developed there. But what is the reality for drivers with electric cars in our country? Check out how many places there are in Poland where you can find electric chargers!
Electric chargers in Poland - how many can you find?
According to data from the end of 2021, there are currently almost 2,000 charging stations in Poland, giving a total of more than 3,000 chargers from which EV owners can power their car. One of the biggest problems in this sphere, however, is that most of the points are located in larger cities with more than 100 000 inhabitants. Despite this, the infrastructure continues to grow. However, it is worth remembering that fast charging stations with so-called direct current can only be found on the most popular routes and in Poland's largest cities.
In Poland, there are around 40 000 registered drivers who drive electric cars. This number is growing every year, not only among private individuals, but also in Polish companies. More and more companies are opting to buy fully electric or hybrid cars, which draw energy from both the batteries and the internal combustion engine. This definitely reduces the impact of traffic on CO2 production and helps to protect the environment.
Unfortunately, despite the growing popularity of electric cars, Poland cannot boast of particular availability of charging stations. Although their number is steadily increasing, compared to other European countries such as the Netherlands, Austria or Germany, we are lagging far behind. 
How does Poland compare to Europe in terms of the number of electric car chargers?
In 2020, sales of electric cars increased by more than 80%. Unfortunately, charging electric cars is still the bane of many Polish drivers who have given up on internal combustion engine vehicles. Why? Poland has very few electric car chargers.
For example, the leader among European countries in this respect - the Netherlands - has more than 40 charging stations per hundred kilometres. In Portugal, you can find 16 of them, and in Austria - 6. In Poland, by comparison, the rate is 0.4 stations per 100 kilometres, which puts us at one of the last places in the rankings for the development of electric vehicle infrastructure.
What is the reason for this? At the moment, the largest number of fast chargers - those with a capacity of more than 25 kWh and capable of delivering power of up to 150 kWh - are located in the area of larger cities such as Wrocław, Krakow and Warsaw. In the capital city, we will find the largest number of places enabling the charging of electric cars. As a result, there are so-called white areas on maps of Poland where, apart from free sockets, we will not find any available fast charger for electric cars.
This makes our rate extremely low and consequently makes life very difficult for drivers. One example is the route from Bydgoszcz to Szczecin via Piła, where there is not a single fast charger for electric vehicles. This section is over 260 kilometres long. The situation is similar in Warmia and Mazury, where during holiday trips, it will be really difficult to find chargers for electric vehicles. 
On average, how many electric cars per charger?
With poorly distributed stations or their absence, it is no wonder that there may be as many as several dozen cars per point, and these are located in the most populated areas of Poland. Almost half of Polish districts are not able to boast of a charger for electric cars. This demonstrates the alarming disproportions in access to energy.
There are currently around 12-13 cars per charging point in Poland. The highest number of cars per point is in Warsaw, as many as 64. However, it is worth bearing in mind that these are the places with the highest number of registered electric cars in Poland. On the map of Poland you can easily find places where not a single electric or hybrid car is registered. Hence the need to build a charging point does not arise.
It is therefore hardly surprising that it will not be easy to find fast charging stations in smaller towns or areas where electric cars are not present. In this respect, the speed and level of infrastructure development required for each electric car charger will depend on how many drivers decide to switch from internal combustion engines.
To sum up - the more hybrids or electrics drive on Polish roads, the more places with an electric car charger we will meet on our route. Cleaner air and a better environment should of course be added to the positive results of this process.
