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Charging stations and electric cars in the canton of Neuchâtel
In the canton of Neuchâtel, 3’603 electric cars are registered, 3,7 % of all passenger cars; the Swiss average is 5,2 %. The SFOE lists 400 public charging points, 86 of them with direct current. There are 9,0 electric cars per charging point, 12,4 across Switzerland.
In the week 19.–25.10.2026, a charging point in the canton was occupied 10,1 % of the time on average, 10,9 % across Switzerland. We counted at least 1’967 charging sessions.
Municipalities without a reported charging point
In 2 municipalities of the canton with more than 20 electric cars, no public charging point is reported to the SFOE. The distance is a straight line from the centre of the municipal area.
- Lignières: 30 electric cars, nearest charging point 4,0 km
- La Sagne: 27 electric cars, nearest charging point 3,4 km
All municipalities
Occupancy is shown from 4 charging points. Sorted by name.
| Municipality | Electric cars | Share | Charging points | Electric cars per charging point | Occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boudry | 156 | 4,3 % | 24 | 6,5 | 9,3 % |
| Brot-Plamboz | 10 | 5,0 % | 0 | – | – |
| Cornaux | 33 | 2,6 % | 2 | 16,5 | – |
| Cortaillod | 158 | 5,1 % | 15 | 10,5 | 37,6 % |
| Cressier (NE) | 27 | 2,2 % | 1 | 27,0 | – |
| La Brévine | 11 | 2,2 % | 0 | – | – |
| La Chaux-de-Fonds | 481 | 2,7 % | 69 | 7,0 | 8,1 % |
| La Chaux-du-Milieu | 10 | 3,3 % | 0 | – | – |
| La Côte-aux-Fées | under 5 | – | 0 | – | – |
| La Grande Béroche | 259 | 4,3 % | 7 | 37,0 | 14,8 % |
| La Sagne | 27 | 3,8 % | 0 | – | – |
| Laténa | 310 | 4,8 % | 52 | 6,0 | 7,1 % |
| Le Cerneux-Péquignot | under 5 | – | 0 | – | – |
| Le Landeron | 87 | 3,1 % | 10 | 8,7 | 12,5 % |
| Le Locle | 133 | 2,3 % | 11 | 12,1 | 5,5 % |
| Les Planchettes | under 5 | – | 0 | – | – |
| Les Ponts-de-Martel | 26 | 3,5 % | 5 | 5,2 | 23,4 % |
| Les Verrières | 11 | 2,6 % | 1 | 11,0 | – |
| Lignières | 30 | 4,4 % | 0 | – | – |
| Milvignes | 264 | 4,8 % | 27 | 9,8 | 6,0 % |
| Neuchâtel | 845 | 4,0 % | 105 | 8,0 | 11,2 % |
| Rochefort | 53 | 6,0 % | 3 | 17,7 | – |
| Val-de-Ruz | 437 | 4,0 % | 37 | 11,8 | 10,0 % |
| Val-de-Travers | 227 | 3,6 % | 31 | 7,3 | 5,8 % |
Where the figures come from
- Electric cars: FSO, road vehicle stock by municipality, as of 2025, and new registrations 2025. Counted by the keeper’s address, so company cars are included. We do not show figures under 5.
- Charging points: SFOE, charging stations for electric cars (ich-tanke-strom.ch), daily export of 26.10.2026. The municipality follows from the coordinate and swisstopo’s municipal boundaries (swissBOUNDARIES3D).
- Occupancy: our own measurement from the SFOE status reports, every 3 minutes, week 19.–25.10.2026. The figures are openly available at /ladenetz-gemeinden.json.
- Electricity tariff: ElCom, tariffs reported by the distribution system operators, standard product, profile H5 (7’500 kWh a year, house with an electric car), excluding VAT.
What the figures do not say
- Private chargers in garages and at houses are not recorded centrally anywhere and are missing here. Most electric cars charge there.
- No reported charging point does not mean there is none: an operator who does not report its charger to the SFOE is missing from the file.
- Charging sessions are a lower bound. We count the change from free to occupied between two readings; a session shorter than three minutes is missed.
- Occupancy counts how often a charging point was reported as occupied. A car that stays parked after charging counts as occupied.