{"id":51,"date":"2022-11-05T15:11:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T14:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uscale.digital\/en\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2026-10-02T12:43:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T10:43:21","slug":"cpo-and-emsp-charging-services-study","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uscale.digital\/en\/cpo-and-emsp-charging-services-study\/","title":{"rendered":"eMobility CPO\/eMSP Charging Services Study 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull is-style-red-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-transform:uppercase\">eMSP\/CPO Charging Services Study 2026<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull is-style-grey-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:35% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1018\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/uscale.digital\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/Charging-Services-Study-1-1018x1024.png\" alt=\"Charging Services Study\" class=\"wp-image-2166 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uscale.digital\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/Charging-Services-Study-1-1018x1024.png 1018w, https:\/\/uscale.digital\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/Charging-Services-Study-1-298x300.png 298w, https:\/\/uscale.digital\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/Charging-Services-Study-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/uscale.digital\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/Charging-Services-Study-1-768x773.png 768w, https:\/\/uscale.digital\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/Charging-Services-Study-1.png 1117w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1018px) 100vw, 1018px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-underlined\"><strong>CPO\/eMSP Charging Services Study \u2013 a 360\u00b0 view of your target audience: market shares and reasons for using charging services, plus reasons for not using them<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the range of public charging infrastructure on offer grows, so too does competition. In the CPO\/eMSP Charging Services Study, USCALE examines for the eighth time which charging providers (CPOs and eMSPs) electric car drivers prefer and why. It also looks at why EV drivers who have examined a service more closely ultimately decide not to use it (anymore).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study provides up-to-date market shares, key provider groups and explains reasons for usage and churn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The focus is on the customer journey: key decision-making factors are analysed, from the choice of provider to usage or rejection, supplemented by a CONJOINT analysis of the most important selection criteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Providers receive detailed provider profiles to assess their positioning and develop new competitive advantages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CPO\/eMSP Charging Services Study was conducted online in July 2026 amongst 2,500 electric car drivers in Germany. A CPO study in the USA is currently still underway, with further studies in countries such as the UK and France in preparation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/uscale.digital\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/CPO-Charging-Services-Study-2026-Excerpt.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DOWNLOAD STUDY EXCERPT 2026 <svg class=\"icon\" role=\"img\"><use xlink:href=\"#download\"><\/use><\/svg><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-underlined\">CONTENTS AND ADDED VALUE OF THE CPO\/eMSP CHARGING SERVICES STUDY<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-generic-accordion generic-accordion\"><details id=\"contents-of-the-cpo-emsp-charging-service-study\"><summary class=\"accordion-title\">Contents of the CPO\/eMSP Charging Service Study<\/summary><div class=\"accordion-text\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Segmentation criteria:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Vehicle (make, max DC charging capacity, private vs. company car, employer contribution to charging costs)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EV experience as main segmentation criteria of the study<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Driving habits (mileage per year and per weekday)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Charging behavior (charging locations, charging situations, charging frequencies, charging preferences)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Living situation (type of house, type of city)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u2018Charging types\u2019 derived from charging behaviour, living situation and driving habits (by means of a statistical cluster analysis)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Demographics (age, gender, income)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Customer Journey to the preferred charging service:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Price-performance customer type (importance of price in relation to performance)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>First touchpoint with the charging service currently preferred<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Research-oriented customer type (effort invested in research)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Research locations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Exposure and perception of advertisments<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Proactive contact by charging service providers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Expectations re car dealers and car brands regarding (OEM-branded) charging offers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brand image of CPOs and eMSPs:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Unaided awareness of charging service providers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Aided awareness of the leading charging service providers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Familiarity with the leading providers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brand perception (semantic differential with 11 items)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Overall brand perception (market leadership, quality, image, trustworthiness)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CPO of choice \/ eMSP of choice:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Actively used charging services<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Contract type for services with a standing charge<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Usual method for starting the charging process<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Usage scenarios for each charging service<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Willingness to recommend (NPS)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Preferred charging service; proportion of usage accounted for by the preferred service<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reasons for preferring a particular service<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Main reason for preferring a particular service<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Awareness of the preferred service<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reason for choosing the preferred service<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Time of the decision to choose the preferred service<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brand health and conversion funnel for providers no longer used<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Level of familiarity with well-known but not actively used providers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Attitude towards these providers (positive, neutral, negative)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Segmentation into non-involved, soft-involved, interested, considerers, churners, rejecters<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reasons for not using (or no longer using) the service<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Price-performance perception:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Perception of the charging offering by provider (semantic differential, 7 items)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Positioning of the charging offering by provider (affordable contract or ad hoc prices, dense regional network, extensive motorway network):<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Selection decision and app features:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>CONJOINT analysis of the importance and interactions of features when selecting a charging service:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Coverage<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Plug &amp; Charge\/AutoCharge<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>HPC price<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Availability and vehicle integration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Importance of app functions: routing, route planning, automatic charging stop, in-app payment, monitoring of the charging process, live vehicle status, infotainment integration, charging history<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CPO \/ eMSP provider profiles:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Profile sheets covering brand awareness, usage and customer preference, consideration, rejection, disloyalty, NPS score, usage context, reasons for preference, decision-making point for preferred usage, and brand perception (delta relative to the average in each case)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Profile sheets are available for 18 providers: \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Aldi<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Allego<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Aral pulse<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ChargeMap<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>E.ON Drive<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>eCharge+ (Vaylens)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EWE Go<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fastned<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>InCharge (Vattenfall)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>IONITY<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lidl<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maingau Autostrom<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>mobility+ (EnBW)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Octopus<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>OEM-Angebote<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pfalzwerke<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shell Recharge<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tesla Supercharger<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Payment methods:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Preferred payment and authorisation method at the charging point<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/details><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-generic-accordion generic-accordion\"><details id=\"target-group-of-the-survey\"><summary class=\"accordion-title\">Target group of the survey<\/summary><div class=\"accordion-text\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only owners and drivers of fully battery-electric e-cars were surveyed for the study. The average EV ownership experience of the respondents was 2 to 3 years. All respondents regularly charge in public spaces.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/details><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-generic-accordion generic-accordion\"><details id=\"value-added-and-benefit-for-cpos-and-all-providers-with-an-emsp-service\"><summary class=\"accordion-title\">Value added and benefit for CPOs and all providers with an eMSP service<\/summary><div class=\"accordion-text\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study is mainly aimed at <strong>business developers<\/strong>, <strong>product managers<\/strong> and <strong>marketing experts<\/strong> at <strong>charge point operators (CPOs)<\/strong>, <strong>providers of eMSP services<\/strong> and <strong>car manufacturers or importers<\/strong> with their own eMSP offering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The eMSP \/ CPO Charging Services study provides the competitive position of all provider groups and large individual providers. It shows eMSP provider groups and large individual providers how their market shares have developed, the most important reasons for use and when and why customers switch to another provider. This enables CPOs and eMSPs to improve the strengths and weaknesses of their own offerings. Product managers receive a qualified basis for the development or revision of their own offers and tariff structures.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/details><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-generic-accordion generic-accordion\"><details id=\"dashboard-for-analysis\"><summary class=\"accordion-title\">Dashboard for analysis<\/summary><div class=\"accordion-text\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many exciting findings only become apparent when the results are evaluated separately according to important customer groups. This allows providers to target their offers to different user segments in a differentiated way. Thanks to the high sample size, subscribers to the study can split the results in the interactive dashboard as they wish and analyse them in detail. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/details><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-generic-accordion generic-accordion\"><details id=\"uscale-focus-studies--user-studies-on-electromobility\"><summary class=\"accordion-title\">USCALE focus studies: User studies on electromobility<\/summary><div class=\"accordion-text\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since 2018, USCALE has been systematically surveying EV drivers about their expectations and experiences at all touchpoints of the e-mobile customer journey. You can find an overview of all USCALE focus studies <a href=\"https:\/\/uscale.digital\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/UScale-eMobility-Insights-FOKUSSTUDIEN-2026-en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We show extracts from other studies in the LinkedIn articles by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/uscale-gmbh\/\">USCALE <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/axel-sprenger\/\">Axel S<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/axel-sprenger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prenger<\/a>, our company founder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have any questions, please contact us at <a href=\"mailto:contact@uscale.digital\">contact@uscale.digital<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/details><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull is-style-grey-background\" id=\"Beratungsgespr\u00e4ch\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<h2 id=\"FreeConsultation\" class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-underlined\">Book a free consultation now<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You have a product idea or already a concept and want to <strong>secure your investment<\/strong>?<br>Your product is ready to launch, and you&#8217;re looking for the best way to <strong>reach your target group<\/strong>?<br>After a successful launch, how can you prioritize which ideas to develop further?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wherever you are with your innovation, let&#8217;s talk. 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