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CCS (Combined Charging System)

CCS charging points, and how many are actually mapped

CCS is the DC fast-charging standard on almost every new EV sold in Europe and North America. The plug is a Type 2 socket with two extra DC pins underneath, so one inlet does both slow AC and 350 kW DC.

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Counted, not estimated

Across the 211 cities Refuelia counts, 4,474 charging points list a CCS socket in OpenStreetMap. This is what has actually been mapped and counted, not an estimate of what exists.

Lisbon227Athens214Budapest176Porto169Hamburg156Oslo141Stuttgart137Paris116Lille114Rotterdam114Dusseldorf105Cologne104

Counted from OpenStreetMap · 1 August 2026. A charging point is in this number only when its connector is tagged, so the real figure is higher — an untagged socket is not a socket we will claim.

What it is

A Type 2 socket with two DC pins added below it. Europe calls it CCS2; North America calls the older Type 1 version CCS1. The two are not interchangeable, and a European CCS2 cable will not fit a CCS1 car.

Speed you will actually see

Public CCS posts run from 50 kW to 350 kW. The number on the post is a ceiling, not a promise: a cold battery, a full one, or a shared cabinet with another car all pull the real rate down.

Who needs it

Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes, Hyundai, Kia, Ford, Polestar, Volvo and most others. Tesla in Europe uses CCS2 natively; in North America Teslas use NACS and need an adapter.

What the number above does not say

The count comes from connector tags in OpenStreetMap. A charging point whose socket has never been tagged is not in it, so the real total is higher than the figure shown — we would rather undercount than claim a socket nobody recorded. Availability is a separate question again: a mapped CCS post is not a working one, which is why every pin carries the last time a driver confirmed it, and says so plainly when nobody has.

Using it on the road

Filter the map to CCS and every pin left is one your car can take DC from. Reading the map needs no account; confirming that a charger worked is one tap and stays anonymous.

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