The infrastructure for charging electric cars has been growing rapidly in Slovakia in recent years, but it could grow even faster thanks to the renewal plan.
However, it took years for the Ministry of Economy to announce and evaluate a call to build new charging stations. Once it did, time was so short that the big players lost interest.
The largest subsidy of almost five million euros was thus received by a company with zero sales, whose owner is employed in a hotel in Brno and whose father forbade her to communicate about the company.
A similar amount was received by another company from the east, which is dedicated to processing wood and has not been interested in electromobility so far.
These two companies are to build more than 1,500 charging points in half a year, which is roughly half of Slovakia’s commitment as part of the recovery plan. This would be an unrealistic goal even for the big players in the market.
To give you a better idea, according to data from the Slovak Association for Electromobility, there were a total of 3,136 charging points in Slovakia at the end of March 2026, but this infrastructure was being built for several years.
Slovakia is thus in real danger of not meeting the next milestone of the recovery plan.
You will read in the article
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that the owner of one of the subsidized companies works in a hotel,
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another company is engaged in forestry,
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why didn’t the big players get involved.
The owner works in a hotel
Up to 1,200 charging points are to be built by GTIS charging. For this, it received a subsidy of 4.7 million euros from the Ministry of Economy, which is the largest ever subsidy within the call. This subsidy does not require any co-financing.
The company is based in a family house in the village of Melčice-Lieskové near Trenčín, has zero sales and according to the Registry of Public Sector Partners, Eliška Krmíčková is the final beneficiary of the benefits. However, whether she is really the final user of the benefits is questionable.
According to her profile on social networks, she lives in Brno. We called the reception of the hotel where he works, from where we were connected to Krmíčková.
