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Over 20 Million EV Chargers Operating In China Now
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Of course, we who follow electric vehicles know China is the world’s largest EV manufacturer. It’s also clear there are many affordable Chinese EVs — much more affordable than in some other countries. There might be less clarity about how much China is also leading in the number of EV chargers, which makes sense for a country that has the largest number of fully electric vehicles.
To get straight to it, here are some points recently published by China’s National Energy Administration: “By the end of December 2025, the number of electric vehicle charging facilities in my country reached 20.092 million, exceeding the 20 million mark. Among them, there were 4.717 million public charging facilities (guns) and 15.375 million private charging facilities (guns). Currently, my country has built the world’s largest electric vehicle charging network, supporting the charging needs of over 40 million new energy vehicles.”
Another claim in the article is that going from 10 million chargers to 20 million only took about 18 months. Many of China’s chargers are fast ones as well. Quite a few chargers have been installed in highway service areas, with almost full coverage of those areas now provided for long-distance driving.
For the sake of comparison, Europe has a little over one million public EV chargers. The US may have only about 237,000 non-home chargers.
China has great motivation for switching to full EVs, far too much toxic air pollution. Air pollution from fossil fuels harms many people in China every year and contributes to far too many premature deaths.
“Every year, more than four million people around the world die prematurely from breathing dirty air. In China alone, the number of deaths attributable to air pollution exceeds one million annually. That figure may not come as a surprise; after all, we are routinely treated to images in the media of thick, sooty smog enveloping Beijing, Shanghai, and other Chinese cities.”
There are some people who try to criticize electric vehicles by claiming they all run on electricity generated by coal, which is not true. Much electricity is now generated from clean, renewable sources: hydropower, solar power, wind power, etc. China is a world leader in solar power and in battery manufacturing, so it is poised to decrease its reliance on fossil fuels and become more energy independent while reducing toxic air pollution.
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