European open access fast charging corridor launched

23rd December 2014

European Commission Innovation & Networks Executive Agency

Barney Scott

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The €8.4m Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T) co-funded European Long-distance Electric Clean Transport Road Infrastructure Corridor (ELECTRIC) has been launched. ELECTRIC, which is co-funded by the EU, supports the installation of a corridor of high-quality fast chargers along key European motorways until the end of 2015.

Together the partners expect that this corridor will help accelerate EV uptake in the involved Member States and focus on interoperability, sustainable infrastructure setup and network planning alongside infrastructure deployment.

ELECTRIC is funded by the the TEN-T, via which the European Union contributes to the internal market in order to harmonise and better connect transport systems in Europe. The objective of the TEN-T programme is to co-fund investments in transport infrastructure in order to ameliorate the European Transport Networks.

The aim of this project will be to create an open access fast charging corridor situated along major motorways connecting Sweden, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands via a total of 155 foreseen chargers, with up to 30 in the Netherlands, 23 in Denmark, 35 in Sweden and 67 in Germany. This project is composed of a consortium of five partners: ABB (Netherlands), Fastned (Netherlands), CLEVER(Denmark), Öresundskraft (Sweden) and VDE Prüf-und Zertifizierungsinstitut (Germany).

The first results of this project will be soon available, as the first charging stations are already in place and ready to use in Denmark and the Netherlands. It is expected that by the end of December 2015 the open access fast charging corridor will be completed.