Reports

Moldova’s EV charging network covers 31 settlements, but 57% of all stations are inside Chișinău — a city with just 25% of the population. The main north-south corridor to the Danube port has an 88 km stretch with no charging at all. Three of five border crossings are unreachable by EV without careful planning. Only one highway — M14 to the north — has adequate spacing. This geographic supplement maps every station by settlement, measures corridor gaps, and identifies the eight raion centers still at zero.

Moldova’s EV charging network grew 37% in seven months — but the real story is who is building and who has stopped. EV Point, the market leader, shrank for the first time. ECharge became the most active builder. Two operators added nothing in seven months. This comparative analysis tracks station counts, capacity, and market share shifts across all operators from December 2025 to July 2026.

With 13.8 MW of installed charging capacity serving fewer than 10,000 BEVs, Moldova’s EV infrastructure is running at 4.5% utilization. A new weight-based road tax — structurally penalizing mid-size and large electric vehicles — threatens to slow fleet growth further. This independent analysis maps the supply-demand imbalance, benchmarks against AFIR requirements, compares operator tariffs, and proposes a two-track strategy: optimize the oversaturated urban network and build selectively along TEN-T corridors.