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Ebnat-Kappel: charging stations and electric cars
Electric cars
For Ebnat-Kappel, the FSO counts 120 electric cars and 44 plug-in hybrids among 2’852 passenger cars (as of 2025). That is 4,2 % electric cars, against a Swiss average of 5,2 %. A year earlier there were 91. In 2025, 116 electric cars were newly registered, 68,6 % of all new passenger cars.
Public charging points
For Ebnat-Kappel, the SFOE lists 20 public charging points at 8 locations, 4 of them with direct current (as of 26.10.2026). There are 6,0 electric cars per charging point, 12,4 across Switzerland.
Occupancy in the week 19.–25.10.2026
On average, a charging point was occupied 13,0 % of the time, 10,9 % across Switzerland. The busiest hour was 10:00 with 25,9 % occupancy. We counted at least 65 charging sessions, 0,5 per charging point and day. 4 of 20 charging points had no charging session during the whole week. One charging point was out of service for at least 3 days in a row.
Charging at home
Charging at home for Ebnat-Kappel costs 24,78 Rp./kWh energy price at the local grid operator plus a basic charge of CHF 84 a year (tariff 2026). For 100 km that is about CHF 4.79 plus VAT, calculated with 18 kWh consumption and 6,9 % charging loss at the wallbox. For 2027, 23,26 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
- Gommiswald: 7 charging points, 6,4 km
- Wattwil: 23 charging points, 6,6 km
- Nesslau: 2 charging points, 6,8 km
- Kaltbrunn: 7 charging points, 7,3 km
- Lichtensteig: 5 charging points, 9,3 km
- Schänis: 17 charging points, 9,3 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.