Ionity's Busiest Charger in Europe This Summer Sits on the Brenner Run. 202 Cars a Day.

Ionity has published the five most-visited stops on its European network over summer 2026, and the winner is a motorway services at the bottom of the Brenner run.

Affi sits on the A22 just south of Lake Garda, the exit most northern-European drivers take on the way to or from the Italian lakes and the Adriatic. Over the summer it averaged 202 drivers a day, with a mean session of 33 minutes.

The top five

Ionity says Affi took around 50% more daily drivers than the site that topped its 2025 list. Vaielettrico, which reported the Italian figures, puts the Affi installation at 18 high-power chargers under a 75 kWp solar canopy, open since May 2023, with the single busiest day falling on 31 July.

What 202 cars a day actually means

It is worth doing the arithmetic, because "busiest in Europe" sounds like a site under siege and the numbers say something more useful. Two hundred and two sessions of 33 minutes is about 111 charger-hours of demand a day. Spread across 18 stalls that is roughly six hours per stall, or about a quarter of the day.

That is a well-used site, not a saturated one — which is the point of building 18 stalls rather than six. The queueing a driver actually experiences happens in the peaks, on a Saturday changeover day in late July, not in the daily average.

Every one of them is a transit stop

None of the top five is urban. Mâcon Saint-Albain is on the A6 between Paris and Lyon, Sorgues is on the Rhône corridor south of Orange, Quickborn is north of Hamburg on the A7 towards Denmark, and Greve is on the E20 south of Copenhagen. These are the roads Europe drives on holiday, and the ranking is really a map of where long-distance electric traffic concentrates.

The session lengths point the same way. Twenty-four minutes at Greve against 33 at Affi is the difference between a driver topping up mid-run and one arriving low after a long motorway stretch in summer heat.

Why a European Tesla owner should care

Ionity is the pan-European high-power network most Tesla owners fall back on when a Supercharger is not where they need one, and on this corridor the two overlap directly — there is a Tesla Supercharger at Affi as well. Knowing which sites carry the heaviest summer load is route-planning information: it tells you where to expect a wait on a peak Saturday and where an alternative is worth programming in.

It also fills in the demand side of a corridor TeslAnt has been following on the supply side. The Brenner route is where the first Siemens SICHARGE FLEX park opened at OMV Kufstein with four 400 kW stalls at the end of September. Affi is the far end of that same journey, and Ionity's figures show what the traffic looks like when it gets there.