Tunga fordon: 1700 charge points in five years

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Volvo Group, Traton & Daimler Truck kickstart CV Charging Europe.

Daimler Truck, Traton and the Volvo Group have received regulatory approvals for their electric truck charging joint venture announced last winter. As a result, the three partners have established CV Charging Europe (CVCE), with headquarters in Amsterdam. As suspected, Anja van Niersen, formerly Allego, acts as CEO.

As announced last year, the new company plans to build and operate at least 1,700 high power charging points on and near motorways and logistics hubs in Europe within the next five years.

Daimler Trucks, the Volvo Groups and Volkswagen’s commercial vehicles subsidiary Traton agreed to invest half a billion euros, saying this was by far the largest investment in dedicated charging infrastructure for heavy electric trucks in Europe.

CV Charging Europe (CV for Commercial vehicles) will push ahead with the ramp-up of its activities, especially the development of the charging network, to be able to offer public charging stations for commercial electric vehicles with a focus on reliability and good accessibility, according to the statement.

As with previous communications, technical details such as charging standards, charging power, and the size of the hubs remain unclear. The partners have only repeated what was said before, that they want to consider different use cases “as part of a customer-centric approach” – i.e. both charging during the legally prescribed 45-minute rest period for drivers and slower charging overnight.

https://www.electrive.com/2022/07/09/vo ... ng-europe/