Charging in Switzerland

Ascona: charging stations and electric cars

Municipality in the canton of Ticino · network as of 26.10.2026 · occupancy week 19.–25.10.2026

159Electric cars4,5 % of passenger cars

56Public charging points12 with direct current

2,8Electric cars per charging pointSwitzerland: 12,4

0,6 kmNearest fast chargerover 42 kW, straight line

Electric cars

For Ascona, the FSO counts 159 electric cars and 111 plug-in hybrids among 3’503 passenger cars (as of 2025). That is 4,5 % electric cars, against a Swiss average of 5,2 %. A year earlier there were 139. In 2025, 38 electric cars were newly registered, 13,3 % of all new passenger cars.

Public charging points

For Ascona, the SFOE lists 56 public charging points at 17 locations, 12 of them with direct current (as of 26.10.2026). There are 2,8 electric cars per charging point, 12,4 across Switzerland.

Ticino: Charging points, electric cars and occupancy — Sources: SFOE, FSO, own measurement

Occupancy in the week 19.–25.10.2026

On average, a charging point was occupied 8,8 % of the time, 10,9 % across Switzerland. The busiest hour was 12:00 with 15,0 % occupancy. We counted at least 381 charging sessions, 1,0 per charging point and day. 7 of 56 charging points had no charging session during the whole week. 10 charging points were out of service for at least 3 days in a row.

Charging at home

Charging at home for Ascona costs 25,20 Rp./kWh energy price at the local grid operator plus a basic charge of CHF 72 a year (tariff 2026). For 100 km that is about CHF 4.87 plus VAT, calculated with 18 kWh consumption and 6,9 % charging loss at the wallbox. For 2027, 21,95 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

Losone: 12 charging points, 3,0 km
Locarno: 52 charging points, 3,0 km
Ronco sopra Ascona: no reported charging point, 3,1 km
Muralto: 8 charging points, 4,1 km
Orselina: no reported charging point, 4,5 km
Minusio: 17 charging points, 5,4 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.