bp pulse breaks ground on Europe’s first E-Truck charging corridor in Germany

The first charging corridor for Electric Trucks (E-Trucks) in Europe has been announced by bp pulse as part of their effort to expand the critical infrastructure to accelerate the electrification transition

Six public charging locations with ultra-fast 300kW charge points aimed at medium and heavy-duty E-Trucks have been launched along a 600km stretch of the Rhine-Alpine corridor across Germany.

The corridor is considered one of the busiest road freight routes in Europe connecting key North Sea ports in Belgium and the Netherlands with the Mediterranean port of Genoa in Italy through a network of roads stretching in total 1,300km.

Chargers have now been installed on Aral retail sites in Germany between the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan area and the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region. Aral is bp’s German retail brand. In the next six months, two additional locations are scheduled to open on Aral retail sites to complete the new charging corridor.

Once complete, using the Aral pulse charging corridor, an E-Truck will be able to cover over 600km across Germany along one of European’s major road transport routes.

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The 300kW charging stations are each capable of charging more than 20 E-Trucks, per charger each day. An E-Truck’s range can reach up to 200km in around 45-minutes using the ultra-fast charge points .

Nigel Head, EV truck director for Europe at bp pulse, said: “By electrifying this stretch of the Rhine-Alpine corridor with ultra-fast charging, bp is enabling EV Truck charging beyond ‘back to base’…Ultra-fast charging in the right locations, combined with depot and destination charging, is critical infrastructure to accelerate the electrification transition.”

By 2030, it has been estimated that approximately 270,000 battery electric medium and heavy-duty vehicles will be in operation in Europe and they will require up to 140,000 public and destination electric charging points.

This transition is already underway; the German truck fleet is now over 3.5 million vehicles and bp pulse launched its first ultra-fast-charging facilities for medium and heavy-duty electric trucks in Schwegenheim, Rheinland-Pfalz.