GEIG & EPBD
Above 20 parking spaces you are within scope — work it out in 2 minutes. The law requires a charge point to exist, not that anyone gets a turn at it: this calculator shows the statutory minimum for your site and what it means in practice.
Inside or directly adjoining the building — this is what triggers § 10 GEIG.
Staff, residents or tenants who park there regularly.
Share of vehicles that actually want to charge.
Leave empty to assume only what the law demands.
Recommended charge points
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What the law demands
What your site needs
How this is calculated: sessions = points × floor(window ÷ charging time). No queueing simulation, just division — every figure can be checked by hand.
The missing charge points won't be built overnight — sharing the ones you have fairly takes ten minutes. ChargeSlot hands out time slots, reminds people before they run out and shows live what is free.
Your first charging station stays free forever. No credit card required.
We'll email you the full report — legal status, assumptions and every figure, ready to forward to your management.
GEIG regulates installation, not access. You installed the charge point because the law said so — and from the next day on, fourteen colleagues negotiate in the corridor over who gets it when. Whoever arrives first blocks it for eight hours. Whoever charges in the evening finds a full car. ChargeSlot distributes exactly that time: book a slot, get a reminder before it ends, and if you want, the charge point switches itself off.
This calculator is guidance, not legal advice. § 10 GEIG, the GEIG amendment (BGBl. 2026 I No. 226) as applicable from 1 Jan 2027 and Directive (EU) 2024/1275 are what count.
Frequently asked
From more than 20. § 10 GEIG requires owners of existing non-residential buildings with more than 20 parking spaces inside or directly adjoining the building to have installed at least one charge point since 1 January 2025. New builds and major renovations have their own, lower thresholds (§§ 7 and 9 GEIG).
One charge point becomes ten per cent of the spaces. The GEIG amendment transposing the revised EU buildings directive was published on 28 July 2026 (BGBl. 2026 I No. 226). From 1 January 2027 existing non-residential buildings with more than 20 spaces need one charge point per ten spaces — or cabling for at least half of the spaces. For publicly accessible spaces the duty can also be met through provided charging capacity.
Not if you occupy the building yourself. Under § 1 (2) GEIG the act does not apply to non-residential buildings owned by small and medium-sized enterprises and predominantly used by them. The exemption covers the obligation only — your people's demand appears regardless, and that is what the calculator shows.
There the duty attaches to building work, not to occupancy. Anyone erecting a residential building with more than five parking spaces must fit every space with cabling (§ 6 GEIG); for major renovations that applies above ten spaces (§ 8 GEIG). Independently of that, each owner can demand a charging option under § 20 (2) WEG, and tenants under § 554 BGB.
It is a regulatory offence. § 15 GEIG puts a missing charge point under § 10 under a fine of up to €10,000. On top of that comes the paper trail: whoever carries out the work must issue a contractor's declaration under § 13 GEIG, which you keep for five years and present to the authority on request.
Usually more than the law demands and fewer than people fear. The calculator puts both side by side: the statutory minimum and the real demand from your EV share — sessions per day = charge points × floor(window ÷ charging time). Where the gap is small, sharing the existing points fairly closes it faster than a building application.
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