site.btaBulgaria Should Have 30,000 Electric Vehicles by 2026 - Environment Minister

By mid-2026, the number of electric vehicles in Bulgaria should have reached 30,000, Environment Minister Borislav Sandov, who is also Deputy Prime Minister for climate policy, said here Tuesday. He was speaking at a roundtable on the transport of the future and pure energy at a fair price, taking place in Sofia.

In 2020, Bulgaria had 3,000 electric vehicles.

Sandov added that those will be both new and used vehicles. "It must not worry us because in the circular economy things get passed down from one user to the next," he said.

He added that the government is determined to build charging stations for the electric vehicles. "We will need 10,000 public charging points across the country for everybody to use," Sandov also said.

Charging points will be built in the central parts of the 50 largest cities in Bulgaria as well as in the large residential districts. The plans are to build at least 20-30 large charging hubs and 150-200 fast charging points at the entry-exit points of cities. They will be built both on municipal land and in private properties such as shopping centres and fuel stations. The government will seek to apply a market approach and public-private partnerships to build these, the Minister said.