Türkiye’s electric-vehicle charging infrastructure continued to expand in September 2026, even as monthly charging sessions and electricity consumption declined from August. According to the Energy Market Regulatory Authority’s monthly charging-services statistics, drivers completed 3,152,733 charging sessions during the month. Those sessions consumed a total of 83,253 megawatt-hours of electricity.
The number of sessions fell from 3,527,070 in August, a decline of about 10.6%. Electricity consumption decreased 14.6% from 97,469 megawatt-hours to 83,253 megawatt-hours. Average consumption per session was 26.41 kilowatt-hours, while total charging time reached 3,548,897 hours. The figures describe a monthly movement; one month of lower activity does not by itself establish a long-term decline in EV use.
Charging points rise to 48,971
Infrastructure kept growing despite the decrease in charging activity. The nationwide number of charging points, or sockets, increased 2.2% from 47,908 in August to 48,971 in September. The total included 21,307 direct-current fast-charging points and 27,664 alternating-current points.
Total installed charging capacity also increased, rising from 3,773 megawatts to 3,875 megawatts in one month. Meanwhile, data from the Turkish Statistical Institute showed that the number of electric vehicles climbed from 476,934 to 491,492. Vehicle and socket numbers therefore increased while total sessions and electricity use remained below their August levels.
Fast charging accounts for 82.44% of electricity use
Direct-current fast chargers used 68,637 megawatt-hours in September, representing 82.44% of the market’s total electricity consumption. Alternating-current points accounted for 14,617 megawatt-hours, or 17.56%. Fast charging also led by session count: 74.64% of charging sessions took place at DC points and 25.36% at AC points.
The highest hourly consumption was recorded between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m., at 5,730 megawatt-hours. The 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. period followed with 5,607 megawatt-hours. Consumption was lowest between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m., at 725 megawatt-hours. By average daily consumption, Sunday and Saturday ranked first and second.
Istanbul represents more than a quarter of consumption
Istanbul ranked first among provinces with 22,383 megawatt-hours of charging-station consumption, equal to 26.89% of the nationwide total. Ankara followed with 11,057 megawatt-hours, Izmir with 5,094, Bursa with 4,299 and Antalya with 3,699. The distribution shows that charging demand remained concentrated in Türkiye’s largest urban markets.
Among charging-network operators, Trugo ranked first by electricity consumption with 18,543 megawatt-hours. Zes followed with 13,885 megawatt-hours and Eşarj was third with 5,107. These figures measure electricity used at each operator’s stations; they should not be read as rankings by station count, revenue or number of customers.
The report also said 51,522 megawatt-hours of the electricity used for charging was consumed at green charging stations backed by Renewable Energy Resource Guarantee certificates. That represented 61.89% of the total. Other charging stations accounted for 31,731 megawatt-hours.
September’s figures show that network size and the EV fleet can continue growing even when monthly usage indicators decline. Evaluating the market’s direction therefore requires charging infrastructure, vehicle numbers, session counts and electricity consumption to be considered together and across more than one reporting month. EPDK’s monthly series makes it possible to compare the expansion of infrastructure with actual market use on a regular basis.
