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Moldova.
EVS Moldova EV Service Centre Market Entry
Decision-grade Moldova assessment separating exact BEV stock, mixed hybrid categories, annual registration flows, changing import-tax descriptions and charging points, with an auditable passenger/light serviceable-pool proxy and compliance-first Chişinău pilot gates.
All-road electric stock
9,849
Exact fully electric stock at end-2025; later approximately 11,000 is not substituted.
Stations
250
Reported minimum public charging points; no connector/power/access/uptime audit.
Jobs/year
926
9,849 × passenger share × 98% active × Chişinău concentration × 45% reach × 1.15 events.
Years
2.954
Base simple payback on MDL700,000 reversible partner-pilot capex.
01/The verdict in full
Executive summary
- Conditional go for a capped Chişinău partner pilot only. Exact end-2025 stock is 9,849 fully electric vehicles; later approximately 11,000 is directional. [moldpres_2025_stock] [energy_june2026]
- Hybrids are excluded. The 77,985 hybrid figure includes PHEVs but does not isolate them.
- The model yields 7,181 national TAM and 926 Chişinău independent-reach SAM jobs per year. Both are EVS assumption-led.
- Hold pack work. Launch diagnostics/evidence, chassis, HVAC, 12V, charge-fault and fleet collection only.
02
Board Decision
Authorise up to MDL700,000 of reversible capex for diligence and a 90-day two-bay partner pilot only after gates clear. Do not sign a standalone lease, grant area exclusivity or advertise traction-battery repair. Base steady-state economics are 300 jobs, MDL1,350,000 revenue, MDL237,000 EBITDA and 2.95-year simple payback; all are EVS assumptions.
Decision Summary
- Decision
- CONDITIONAL GO — Chişinău partner pilot
- Reason
- The exact national BEV stock is 9,849, but class, age, region and supported-VIN extracts remain unaudited.
- Decision
- NO-GO now
- Reason
- Paid demand, independent reach, approval cost and OEM-tool coverage are not yet evidenced.
- Decision
- HOLD
- Reason
- No pack opening, module/cell work, removal, storage or damaged-battery custody until written approvals and carrier route.
- Decision
- Collection/clinic only
- Reason
- Test Bălţi and corridor demand without fixed capex; exclude Transnistria from phase 1.
03
Market size
The exact stock anchor is 9,849 fully electric vehicles at end-2025. About 11,000 in June 2026 is a later approximate signal; 77,985 hybrids including PHEVs remain outside the denominator. [moldpres_2025_stock] [energy_june2026]
Exact observations and one later approximate signal; hybrids excluded.
Market KPIs
- Value
- 1,380,000
- Unit
- vehicles, minimum
- Period
- Start-2026
- Evidence
- All classes; reported as over 1.38 million [businessclass_parc]
- Value
- 892,770
- Unit
- vehicles
- Period
- Start-2026
- Evidence
- Exact registry relay [businessclass_parc]
- Value
- 9,849
- Unit
- vehicles
- Period
- End-2025
- Evidence
- Exact stock [moldpres_2025_stock]
- Value
- 77,985
- Unit
- vehicles
- Period
- End-2025
- Evidence
- PHEV not separable; excluded from TAM [moldpres_2025_stock]
- Value
- 4,065
- Unit
- vehicles
- Period
- 2025
- Evidence
- Flow: 3,418 individual + 647 legal entity [moldpres_2025_stock]
- Value
- 26,502
- Unit
- vehicles
- Period
- 2025
- Evidence
- Flow: 22,790 individual + 3,712 legal entity [moldpres_2025_stock]
- Value
- 6.92
- Unit
- percent
- Period
- End-2025
- Evidence
- Electric + hybrid combined, not plug-in share [moldpres_2025_stock]
- Value
- 13,101
- Unit
- vehicles
- Period
- 2025
- Evidence
- 12,686 passenger + 415 LCV [ceauto_2025]
Definition-sensitive electrification observations
- BEV
- 600
- PHEV (unavailable)
- —
- BEV used in model
- 600
- Scope
- Exact electric count; hybrid total 13,168 is mixed [infomarket_stock].
- BEV
- 3,020
- PHEV (unavailable)
- —
- BEV used in model
- 3,020
- Scope
- Electric cars reported by ASP [moldova1_apr2024].
- BEV
- 4,795
- PHEV (unavailable)
- —
- BEV used in model
- 4,795
- Scope
- Electric vehicles; hybrid total 44,383 kept separate [cned_sep2024].
- BEV
- 9,849
- PHEV (unavailable)
- —
- BEV used in model
- 9,849
- Scope
- Exact electric stock; model anchor [moldpres_2025_stock].
- BEV
- 11,000
- PHEV (unavailable)
- —
- BEV used in model
- 11,000
- Scope
- Approximate current Ministry signal; not model denominator [energy_june2026].
04
Definition control
Stock, approximate current signals, annual registrations, hybrids, new-car sales, charging points and operator counts answer different questions. The model never adds flows to stock or treats all hybrids as PHEVs.
Definition reconciliation
- Included
- Core anchor
- Use
- 9,849 exact registered vehicles; road-class split unavailable.
- Included
- Directional signal only
- Use
- Approximate and later; never silently substituted for exact stock.
- Included
- Context only
- Use
- 77,985 mixed stock; PHEV cannot be isolated and all hybrids are excluded from TAM.
- Included
- Adoption-flow evidence
- Use
- 4,065 annual registrations; never added to end-2025 stock.
- Included
- Infrastructure context
- Use
- More than 250; not audited connectors, power, access, uptime or locations.
- Included
- Parts and demand signals
- Use
- Flows and specialist rankings; not installed EV stock shares.
05
Scenarios are EVS planning ranges
Five-year end-2030 scenarios grow the exact end-2025 anchor at 15%, 25% and 35%. They are not official forecasts.
15% / 25% / 35% CAGR for five years from 9,849; planning scenarios only.
Five-year EV planning scenarios
- Annual Growth Pct
- 15
- Planning stock end-2030
- 19,810
- Interpretation
- Affordability, used-import quality, infrastructure and policy volatility constrain adoption; EVS scenario.
- Annual Growth Pct
- 25
- Planning stock end-2030
- 30,057
- Interpretation
- Continued rapid adoption with Chinese-brand and used-import momentum; EVS scenario.
- Annual Growth Pct
- 35
- Planning stock end-2030
- 44,163
- Interpretation
- Strong price compression, finance and charging expansion; upside stress case, not forecast.
06
Charging availability requires a field audit
More than 250 points and 15 operators were reported in August 2025; power, connector, access, uptime and exact locations are not established. [ipn_charging]
Points, operators, planned fast stations and audited EVS locations remain separate.
Charging evidence and unknowns
- Value
- 250
- Unit
- points, minimum
- Period
- Reported Aug-2025
- Status
- More than 250; connector, power, access and uptime unverified [ipn_charging].
- Value
- 15
- Unit
- operators
- Period
- Reported Aug-2025
- Status
- Operator count, not network count [ipn_charging].
- Value
- 150
- Unit
- stations
- Period
- By 2030
- Status
- Plan, not commissioned assets; roughly 60-km national-road/TEN-T spacing [ipn_charging].
- Value
- 0
- Unit
- locations
- Period
- Pre-entry
- Status
- EVS has not completed a connector/access/power/uptime field audit.
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Parc Age Intro
See the linked dataset, calculations and source register for the evidence, assumptions and open decisions in this section.
Vehicle parc and service demand
- Value
- 892,770
- Unit
- vehicles
- Implication
- Large legacy chassis/HVAC parc; not an EV denominator [businessclass_parc].
- Value
- 395,251
- Unit
- vehicles
- Implication
- 28.64% all-vehicle national concentration proxy [chisinau_parc].
- Value
- 1,012
- Unit
- vehicles
- Implication
- Early cohorts are beginning to age beyond initial warranty/tyre cycles [moldova1_apr2024].
- Value
- —
- Unit
- years
- Implication
- Not located; acquire VIN year, mileage and first-registration extract before final service mix.
- Value
- 647
- Unit
- vehicles
- Implication
- Auditable starting point for fleet interviews; not fleet stock [moldpres_2025_stock].
08
Transparent serviceable-pool model
Sourced facts are separated from EVS assumptions. Current executable SOM remains zero until evidence and approvals clear.
Assumption-led jobs/year; current SOM is zero.
Sizing assumptions
- Value
- 9,849
- Unit
- vehicles
- Basis
- Sourced fact [moldpres_2025_stock].
- Value
- 64.693
- Unit
- percent
- Basis
- Passenger-car share of all registered vehicles; proxy [businessclass_parc].
- Value
- 98
- Unit
- percent
- Basis
- EVS assumption; removes inactive/off-road records.
- Value
- 1.15
- Unit
- events/vehicle
- Basis
- EVS assumption for scoped independent work.
- Value
- 4,500
- Unit
- MDL/job
- Basis
- EVS VAT-exclusive launch assumption.
- Value
- 28.641
- Unit
- percent
- Basis
- 395,251 city vehicles / 1.38m national vehicles; all-vehicle proxy.
- Value
- 45
- Unit
- percent
- Basis
- EVS assumption after OEM/warranty/unsupported exclusions.
TAM / SAM / SOM
- Vehicles
- 6,244
- Jobs Per Year
- 7,181
- Revenue ALL
- 32,314,500
- Status
- Modelled active passenger/light BEV pool nationally; not official revenue.
- Vehicles
- 1,788
- Jobs Per Year
- 2,056
- Revenue ALL
- 9,252,000
- Status
- All-vehicle concentration proxy applied before reach.
- Vehicles
- 805
- Jobs Per Year
- 926
- Revenue ALL
- 4,167,000
- Status
- 45% independent-reach assumption in Chişinău.
09
Segments Intro
See the linked dataset, calculations and source register for the evidence, assumptions and open decisions in this section.
Customer segments
- Need
- Independent diagnostics, battery-health evidence, charging and 12V faults
- Priority
- Highest after supported-VIN verification.
- Need
- Pre-purchase scan, history/condition evidence and post-import triage
- Priority
- High; no residual-value or battery-capacity guarantee.
- Need
- Lawful tool coverage, parts navigation and non-warranty maintenance
- Priority
- High only for whitelisted VINs.
- Need
- Powertrain-integrated diagnosis
- Priority
- Research only; no stock denominator or launch volume assumed.
- Need
- Evidence reports and planned collection
- Priority
- Test corridors; phase-1 Transnistria excluded.
Fleet segments
- Entry Product
- Uptime scan, tyres/brakes, collection and evidence pack
- Evidence Gate
- Interview owners of the 2,081 end-2025 legal-entity EVs; obtain one LOI [moldpres_2025_stock].
- Entry Product
- Scheduled inspection and fast triage
- Evidence Gate
- Paid pilot; no platform fleet count assumed.
- Entry Product
- Downtime SLA and tyre/chassis bundle
- Evidence Gate
- Supported-VIN and payload/use audit.
- Entry Product
- Pre-delivery evidence and non-warranty overflow
- Evidence Gate
- Written scope, data rights and liability boundary.
- Entry Product
- Tendered evidence/maintenance
- Evidence Gate
- Procurement-specific; no award assumed.
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Brands Intro
See the linked dataset, calculations and source register for the evidence, assumptions and open decisions in this section.
Priority brands — no audited market shares located
- Brand
- BYD
- Units
- 245
- Share of H1 2026 BEVs (%)
- —
- Source
- Specialist new-BEV flow estimate; verify registry extract [piataauto_ev].
- Brand
- Zeekr
- Units
- 68
- Share of H1 2026 BEVs (%)
- —
- Source
- Specialist new-BEV flow estimate; verify registry extract [piataauto_ev].
- Brand
- Tesla
- Units
- 61
- Share of H1 2026 BEVs (%)
- —
- Source
- Specialist new-BEV flow estimate; no authorised local coverage inferred [piataauto_ev] [tesla_findus].
- Brand
- Other Chinese and European imports
- Units
- —
- Share of H1 2026 BEVs (%)
- —
- Source
- Long-tail stock unavailable; require top-20 VIN extract.
- Brand
- Toyota and other OEMs
- Units
- —
- Share of H1 2026 BEVs (%)
- —
- Source
- Mixed hybrid category cannot identify PHEVs [toyota_moldova].
Priority models
- Model
- Song Plus and imported BEV/PHEV families
- Powertrain
- BEV/PHEV
- Signal
- Song Plus sixth in overall 2025 model ranking; powertrain mix and stock unverified [bsc_2025].
- Model
- Model 3 / Model Y imports
- Powertrain
- BEV
- Signal
- Independent-tool and parts opportunity; verify lawful security access and service map.
- Model
- Zoe / Leaf and newer imports
- Powertrain
- BEV
- Signal
- Used-import relevance; verify battery-test coverage and parts.
- Model
- Kona / Ioniq / Niro / EV families
- Powertrain
- BEV/PHEV
- Signal
- Local brand routes exist; exact installed base and tool scope unavailable.
- Model
- BMW i / VAG EV families
- Powertrain
- BEV/PHEV
- Signal
- OEM networks and secure data make referral boundaries essential.
11In the full report
Competitors Intro
See the linked dataset, calculations and source register for the evidence, assumptions and open decisions in this section.
This section is in the full report.
12In the full report
Priority geography
Lead with Chişinău, then test Bălţi and border corridors through collection. Keep Transnistria out of phase 1.
This section is in the full report.
13In the full report
Incentives and tax
No subsidy, grant or import benefit is included in the base case. Written Customs and Finance rulings control.
This section is in the full report.
14In the full report
Tax Intro
See the linked dataset, calculations and source register for the evidence, assumptions and open decisions in this section.
This section is in the full report.
15In the full report
Licensing Intro
See the linked dataset, calculations and source register for the evidence, assumptions and open decisions in this section.
This section is in the full report.
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Hv Intro
See the linked dataset, calculations and source register for the evidence, assumptions and open decisions in this section.
High-voltage controls
- Standard
- —
- Proof
- —
- Standard
- —
- Proof
- —
- Standard
- —
- Proof
- —
- Standard
- —
- Proof
- —
- Standard
- —
- Proof
- —
- Standard
- —
- Proof
- —
- Standard
- —
- Proof
- —
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Battery Intro
See the linked dataset, calculations and source register for the evidence, assumptions and open decisions in this section.
Battery and waste routes
- Route
- Non-invasive diagnostics within supported VIN/task list.
- Status
- —
- Route
- Remote triage, evacuation and specialist referral.
- Status
- —
18In the full report
Recommended service portfolio
Launch non-invasive evidence and maintenance services. Pack opening, removal and damaged-battery custody remain prohibited.
This section is in the full report.
19In the full report
Operating Model Intro
See the linked dataset, calculations and source register for the evidence, assumptions and open decisions in this section.
This section is in the full report.
20In the full report
Pilot economics
All MDL scenarios are VAT-exclusive, unlevered EVS assumptions. Capex is released only after evidence gates.
This section is in the full report.
21In the full report
Risks and mitigations
The largest risks are denominator quality, tax ambiguity, unsupported VINs, HV/fire exposure, waste custody and unproven demand.
This section is in the full report.
22In the full report
90-day entry plan
Sequence evidence, approvals, partner demand, safety/tool readiness, dry runs and a measured paid pilot.
This section is in the full report.
23In the full report
Explicit go/no-go gates
Every gate is open. Failure stops, narrows or extends the pilot; it never automatically converts into a centre or franchise.
This section is in the full report.
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Methodology and source register
Primary and authoritative sources are prioritised. Uncertainty is labelled and every derived value is formula-backed.
Methodology
- Method
- Prioritise CNED, ASP, ministries, regulators, EC and standards bodies; use relays when the registry table is not directly exposed.
- Method
- Keep exact stock, approximate current signals, annual flows, mixed hybrids, new sales and charging points as separate grains.
- Method
- Apply explicit passenger/light, active, events, concentration, reach and ARO assumptions to exact end-2025 BEV stock.
- Method
- Run cautious/base/high five-year stock and operating scenarios; do not treat them as official forecasts.
- Method
- Hold executable SOM at zero until approvals, VIN/tool coverage, paid bookings, fleet proof and safety evidence exist.
- Method
- Reparse JSON; reconcile every formula; resolve citations; scan geography/template residue and brand colours.
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Source Register Intro
See the linked dataset, calculations and source register for the evidence, assumptions and open decisions in this section.
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Closing
See the linked dataset, calculations and source register for the evidence, assumptions and open decisions in this section.
Method / Sources and confidence
Where every figure
comes from.
Registrations, charging and legal requirements are read from primary sources. Where no official dataset exists, the model and its assumptions are published instead of a single unexplained number. This report is a dated snapshot: August 2026.
- 01Electric and hybrid transport in Moldova — Q1 2026
- 02More Moldovans choose electric and hybrid cars; 87,000 vehicles registered
- 03Record electric and hybrid cars registered in 2025
- 04Electric and hybrid vehicle stock expands in Moldova
- 05Significant progress in electric and hybrid vehicle use
- 06Evolution of electric and hybrid transport in 2024
- 07Electric and hybrid vehicles gain ground in Moldova
- 08Green registration plates for electric vehicles
- 09Moldova reaches 11,000 electric-car target set for 2030
- 10Passenger-car parc grows by 104,000 in two years
- 11Passenger cars by age — Moldova
- 12Road-infrastructure pressure in the capital
- 13Chişinău urban indicators
- 14150 fast-charging stations planned by 2030
- 152026 Fiscal Code changes
- 16Customs Service of the Republic of Moldova
- 172026 Moldova vehicle customs calculator
- 18Invest Moldova country and tax overview
- 19Support for strategic industrial investments
- 20Environmental authorisations for industrial and economic activities
- 21Extended producer responsibility rules updated
- 22Draft amendments on waste batteries and accumulators
- 23Moldova Report 2025
- 24Measures to accelerate electrical infrastructure projects
- 25EU support and Growth Plan for Moldova
- 26Moldova new-car market — December and full-year 2025
- 27Moldova full-year 2025 model ranking
- 28Moldova new-car market changes in 2025
- 29BYD official Moldova contacts
- 30Toyota Moldova dealer contacts
- 31Igor Auto Electric
- 32Škoda Moldova
- 33Renault Moldova
- 34Kia Moldova
- 35Hyundai Moldova
- 36BMW Moldova
- 37Tesla Find Us
- 38Public Services Agency vehicle registration
- 39Public Services Agency business registration
- 40State Tax Service
- 41State Labour Inspectorate
- 42Occupational safety and health legislation
- 43Environment Agency
- 44ADR 2025 files
- 45Basel Convention overview
- 46ISO 6469 electrified road vehicles safety specifications
- 47IEC 61851-1 conductive charging systems
- 48EVS Moldova serviceable-pool and pilot model
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