diff --git a/edisgo/io/electromobility_import.py b/edisgo/io/electromobility_import.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/edisgo/io/electromobility_import.py
+++ b/edisgo/io/electromobility_import.py
@@ -7,13 +7,15 @@ import os
 from pathlib import Path, PurePath
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
-import geopandas as gpd
 import numpy as np
 import pandas as pd
 
 from numpy.random import default_rng
 from sklearn import preprocessing
 
+if "READTHEDOCS" not in os.environ:
+    import geopandas as gpd
+
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from edisgo import EDisGo
moving geopandas import out of RtD