Oslo's Municipal On-Street EV Charging Network
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Bymiljøetaten promised 350 new public points in 2023 and delivered 122 open to ordinary drivers — the rest went to car-rental fleets. Even the city agrees it needs roughly 7,000 by 2030.
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The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 7 more in Oslo · 🔋 EV & charging guide · 🚲 Mobility projects
Since 2007 Oslo's Agency for Urban Environment (Bymiljøetaten) has built and operated its own on-street public EV charging network, separate from Norway's national tax breaks that made EVs affordable. By February 2025 it ran about 2,600 standard chargers across roughly 1,000 locations, priced and load-balanced through the Bil i Oslo app, with the city aiming for 7,000 points by 2030.
📊 Impact
About 2,600 municipal standard charging points across roughly 1,000 locations as of the end of February 2025, of which 233 are reserved for car-sharing (Oslo city council case document, Byrådssak 182/25). In 2023 the network grew by a net 272 points, but only 122 of those were newly open to ordinary drivers rather than car-rental fleets — short of the city's own 350-point pledge for that year (Norsk elbilforening).
🎓 Lesson
Oslo's charging build-out is often folded into the country's 'EV capital of the world' story, but that story is mostly a national tax-policy achievement (zero purchase tax, zero VAT, toll and ferry exemptions) — the city's own agency-run charging network is a separate, more modest effort that has repeatedly missed its own annual targets and, by both the city's and an independent EV-association's calculation, needs roughly 7,000 points by 2030 to keep pace with a car fleet that is already majority-electric.
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The kerbside plug, and the number nobody publishes
Where residents park on the street, charging has to go into the street furniture. All four did that. Only one of them says how often the plugs are actually used — which is the number the whole genre turns on.
| Project | Since | Status | Outcome | Evidence | Run by | Cost | Who built it, and what they admit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NOX-Block Lamppost EV ChargingDortmund, 🇩🇪 | 2019 | Live | Ongoing | Official | Utility or public operator, City government | not public | The utility built it into existing streetlights on a federal grant, and then published utilisation — calling five and a half per cent a very good inner-city value. |
| Sharing Cities — Greenwich Smart DistrictLondon, 🇬🇧 | 2016 | Completed | Succeeded | Official | City government | not public | Same idea, EU demonstrator money, and the lamppost approach was copied widely because it avoids new street furniture entirely. |
| Oslo's Municipal On-Street EV Charging NetworkOslo, 🇳🇴 | 2007 | Live | Scaled back | Official | City government, Private company | not public | The city's own agency has run its street network since 2007, and keeps missing its own annual targets — a modest municipal effort folded into a national tax-policy success story. |
| Delhi EV Policy & Discom-Tendered Public ChargingNew Delhi, 🇮🇳 | 2020 | Completed | Scaled back | Official | City government, Utility or public operator | not public | Tendered on the lowest price to the driver rather than the highest revenue to the state, which produced cheap public charging and nowhere near enough of it. |
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Oslo's Municipal On-Street EV Charging Network” — Oslo, Norway. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/oslo-public-ev-charging/ (last verified 2026-08-04). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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