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Au (SG): charging stations and electric cars
Electric cars
For Au (SG), the FSO counts 236 electric cars and 119 plug-in hybrids among 5’416 passenger cars (as of 2025). That is 4,4 % electric cars, against a Swiss average of 5,2 %. A year earlier there were 236. In 2025, 65 electric cars were newly registered, 20,5 % of all new passenger cars.
Public charging points
For Au (SG), the SFOE lists 13 public charging points at 4 locations, 3 of them with direct current (as of 26.10.2026). There are 18,2 electric cars per charging point, 12,4 across Switzerland.
Occupancy in the week 19.–25.10.2026
On average, a charging point was occupied 2,8 % of the time, 10,9 % across Switzerland. The busiest hour was 11:00 with 6,6 % occupancy. We counted at least 22 charging sessions, 0,2 per charging point and day. 8 of 13 charging points had no charging session during the whole week. No charging point was out of service for several days in a row.
Charging at home
Charging at home for Au (SG) costs 26,56 Rp./kWh energy price at the local grid operator plus a basic charge of CHF 108 a year (tariff 2026). For 100 km that is about CHF 5.14 plus VAT, calculated with 18 kWh consumption and 6,9 % charging loss at the wallbox. For 2027, 28,00 Rp./kWh has been reported. At public charging points the operator’s price applies, not the grid operator’s tariff. The “Charging” tab shows what operators report.
Nearby municipalities
- Berneck: no reported charging point, 1,9 km
- Widnau: 23 charging points, 2,4 km
- St. Margrethen: 56 charging points, 3,1 km
- Walzenhausen (AR): 5 charging points, 3,6 km
- Balgach: 22 charging points, 3,6 km
- Diepoldsau: 15 charging points, 4,8 km
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.