Florida’s EVs Are Outgrowing Its Public Chargers
How many electric vehicles Florida has, how many public charging ports they share, and how both have changed since 2021, from the U.S. Department of Energy’s own counts, with the data free to download.
Data for Florida
Research › Florida EV charging demand
Florida had 450,400 battery-electric vehicles registered at the end of 2025 and 13,650 public charging ports, 33.0 EVs for every port, up from 16.2 in 2021 and against 23.9 across the United States.
“EVs” here are battery-electric cars and light trucks; plug-in hybrids are counted separately. Public ports are places where anyone can charge, counted on December 31 of each year. Charging at home and private workplace chargers are not in these counts.
Key numbers on Florida EV charging demand
- 450,400battery-electric vehicles registered in Florida at the end of 2025, second only to California and 7.9% of the U.S. totalSource: U.S. Department of Energy, Alternative Fuels Data Center (AFDC), vehicle registration counts
- 13,650public charging ports in Florida on December 31, 2025, at 4,110 station locationsSource: AFDC Station Locator, historical counts on December 31
- 33.0EVs per public port in Florida at the end of 2025, against 23.9 across the United StatesSource: KRW Electric calculation from AFDC counts
- 4.7timesgrowth in Florida’s EVs from 2021 to 2025; public ports grew 2.3 timesSource: KRW Electric calculation from AFDC counts
- 31%of Florida’s public ports were DC fast chargers at the end of 2025 (4,243); the rest were almost all Level 2Source: AFDC Station Locator, historical counts on December 31
EVs have multiplied faster than public chargers
At the end of 2021, Florida had 95,600 battery-electric vehicles registered and 5,895 public charging ports. By the end of 2025 it had 450,400 EVs, 4.7 times as many, and 13,650 public ports, 2.3 times as many. In 2025 alone the number of EVs rose 35% and the number of public ports 23%.
Plug-in hybrids are counted separately: Florida had 88,400 of them at the end of 2025, so 538,800 plug-in vehicles in all could use a charger. The figures on this page count battery-electric vehicles only.
Vehicles registered through each year; public ports on December 31. Each chart has its own scale, starting at zero.
Battery-electric vehicles registered
Public charging ports
Source: AFDC vehicle registration counts and AFDC station counts (public, temporarily unavailable stations excluded).
More EVs share each public port
Dividing EVs by public ports, Florida had 16.2 battery-electric vehicles per port at the end of 2021 and 33.0 at the end of 2025. Across the United States the figure rose from 12.7 to 23.9. Among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, only New Jersey (38.3) and Hawaii (36.4) had more EVs per public port than Florida at the end of 2025.
This is a count, not a measure of waiting times. A DC fast port can charge many more cars in a day than a Level 2 port, and how busy a charger is depends on where it is.
Florida (black) and the United States (gray), end of each year.
Bars start at zero. KRW Electric calculation: registered battery-electric vehicles divided by public charging ports, from AFDC vehicle registration counts and AFDC station counts.
| Year | Florida EVs | Florida public ports | Florida EVs per port | U.S. EVs | U.S. public ports | U.S. EVs per port |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 11,600 | – | – | 280,300 | – | – |
| 2017 | 15,900 | – | – | 377,100 | – | – |
| 2018 | 27,400 | – | – | 572,600 | – | – |
| 2019 | 40,300 | – | – | 783,600 | – | – |
| 2020 | 58,200 | – | – | 1,018,900 | – | – |
| 2021 | 95,600 | 5,895 | 16.2 | 1,454,400 | 114,601 | 12.7 |
| 2022 | 168,000 | 6,922 | 24.3 | 2,442,300 | 129,352 | 18.9 |
| 2023 | 254,900 | 8,967 | 28.4 | 3,555,900 | 160,403 | 22.2 |
| 2024 | 334,800 | 11,106 | 30.1 | 4,503,700 | 195,699 | 23.0 |
| 2025 | 450,400 | 13,650 | 33.0 | 5,689,100 | 238,009 | 23.9 |
EVs are battery-electric light-duty vehicles registered through each year, rounded to the nearest 100 by the source. Ports are public ports on December 31. Port counts before 2021 are left out because the source changed how it counted ports during 2021. Sources: AFDC vehicle registration counts; AFDC station counts. EVs per port is our calculation.
What this means if you drive an EV in South Florida
- Home charging matters more as public ports get busier. For owners who can park off the street, a Level 2 charger on its own 240-volt circuit is what most home installations use; see Level 1 vs Level 2 charging in Florida.
- Check the panel before buying the charger. Whether a new circuit fits depends on the service size and what the home already runs; see does my panel have room for an EV charger and panel upgrades for EV chargers.
- A charger circuit needs a permit. Our study of Miami-Dade County’s electrical permits tracks how many home EV charger permits the county issues each year.
- Condos and HOAs have their own steps. See condo EV charger installation.
Method, sources and limits
How we built it
EVs are the “Electric (EV)” column of the AFDC’s Vehicle Registration Counts by State: battery-electric light-duty vehicles registered through each year, which the AFDC derives from Experian vehicle registration data and rounds to the nearest 100. Plug-in hybrids are a separate column and are not included.
Public charging ports are the AFDC Station Locator’s historical station counts by state on December 31 of each year, for public stations, leaving out stations marked temporarily unavailable. A port is one place a vehicle can charge at a time (AFDC charging terms). Home chargers and private chargers, such as those for employees or fleets only, are not counted. EVs per port is our calculation.
How we checked it
Florida’s 2025 EV count matches the AFDC’s Florida page, and the 2023 counts for Florida and the United States match the exact figures in the AFDC’s EV registrations by state data file once rounded. Each year’s public port count matches the AFDC’s count of all stations minus private stations. Rebuilding Florida’s 2025 public port count from the AFDC station data, using the stations open today that opened by December 31, 2025, gives a figure within 3% of the count used here; the small gap is stations that have closed since.
Limits
- Statewide only. The AFDC publishes registrations by state, not by county, so there is no Miami-Dade figure for EVs per port.
- Port counts start in 2021. The AFDC changed how it counted charging ports during 2021, so earlier port counts are not comparable.
- Registrations count vehicles, rounded to the nearest 100, not how much they are driven or where they charge.
- A port count is not capacity. Fast and Level 2 ports charge at very different speeds, and location matters as much as number.
Sources
- U.S. Department of Energy, Alternative Fuels Data Center, Vehicle Registration Counts by State, 2016 to 2025: afdc.energy.gov
- U.S. Department of Energy, Alternative Fuels Data Center, Alternative Fueling Station Counts by State, historical counts on December 31, 2021 to 2025: afdc.energy.gov
- U.S. Department of Energy, Alternative Fuels Data Center, Electric Vehicle Registrations by State (data file): afdc.energy.gov
- U.S. Department of Energy, Alternative Fuels Data Center, Florida transportation data: afdc.energy.gov
Cite this study
KRW Electric, “Florida’s EVs Are Outgrowing Its Public Chargers,” November 12, 2026, https://krwelectric365.com/research/florida-ev-charging-demand. Data: U.S. Department of Energy, Alternative Fuels Data Center.
Download the data (CSV): battery-electric vehicle registrations and public charging ports for Florida and the United States by year, with EVs per port. Free to use with credit to KRW Electric and a link to this page (CC BY 4.0).
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