The German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV) introduced the listing of ten firms that gained a big tender to construct round 900 DC quick charging stations with nearly 8,000 particular person EV chargers (from 4 to 16 per website).
The undertaking is definitely the primary tender for the “Deutschlandnetz” (Germany community), aimed to enhance EV charging infrastructure throughout the nation.
There’s a second tender on the desk as nicely, which is able to end in extra fast-charging areas at 200 unmanaged motorway relaxation services on the autobahn (freeway community). On this case, there will probably be 1,000 new quick chargers (4-8 per website).
The listing of winners contains primarily German firms, some a part of the bigger European networks like Fastned:
Allego GmbH BayWa Mobility Options GmbH E.ON Drive Infrastructure GmbH Eviny Elektrifisering AS Fastned Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG EWE Go HOCHTIEF Ladepartner GmbH & Co. KG Mer Germany GmbH Pfalzwerke AG Whole Energies Advertising and marketing Deutschland GmbH By way of Deutschlandnetz (VINCI Concessions Deutschland GmbH)
The 900 quick charging areas have been chosen with the growing variety of EVs on the roads in thoughts (the BEV market is rising fairly shortly) and consider the already put in infrastructure to not waste assets.
TotalEnergies, one of many winners, issued a press launch explaining that it’ll construct 134 stations, referred to as EV hubs, in jap, Central, and Western Germany, with a complete of about 1,100 high-power cost (HPC) factors. It will likely be one of many firm’s largest initiatives within the plan to deploy 1,000 websites in Europe by 2028 (up from 300 DC chargers and 48,000 AC charging factors immediately).
Fastned experiences that may construct 92 websites beneath the primary tender, with as much as 16 stalls per website, which will probably be a really massive enlargement from 37 websites operated in Germany immediately. Allego is about to construct 48 new websites.
General, it appears that evidently Germany can have a reasonably dense DC fast-charging infrastructure, with a number of networks to keep up some degree of competitors.
Tesla doesn’t look like taking part within the undertaking, however it additionally has a good fast-charging community with roughly 180 stations and nearly 2,500 particular person stalls.