The additional EV Charging news

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• General Motors has launched the GM Energy PowerBank, a stationary storage product that the company says will give EV owners the power to store and transfer energy from the grid, with the option of integrating with solar power. (link)

• Toyota and Revel partner to give Toyota and Lexus owners free charging at Revel’s fast chargers in New York City for three years. (link) Revel currently offers 64 fast chargers in NYC and is planning to grow to 300. Context: Toyota Ventures also invested in Revel in 2019. 

• Jedlix and Polestar partner for smart and bidirectional charging. (link)

• Powerdot reaches 8,000 live charging points across Europe (link) and surpasses Tesla to become #1 CPO in France. (link)

• Related: Gireve’s update on the fast-charging landscape in France (link).

• Philippines considers requiring EV chargers at gas stations from 2025. (link)

• CATL aims to build 500 battery swap stations by 2025 and 3,000 by 2027. (link)

• Circle K is migrating over 600 DC charging points to the charging platform of Danish company Spirii in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg. (link)

• E.ON selected the charging management platform Ampeco as the backend solution for its 6,000+ public chargers in eleven European countries. (link)

• Ampeco also partners with the roaming provider ChargeHub for its US & Canada, similar to its recent Hubject partnership. (link)

• Japanese charging station manufacturer Terra Charge plans to establish 1,000 public EV charging stations across Indonesia by the end of 2025. (link)

• The Netherlands will subsidize heavy-duty EV charging stations with €57M through two funding programs. (link)

New deployments & Plans

North America:

• Rove has opened its first “full-service” EV charging center in Santa Ana, California, with 40 fast chargers, a Gelson’s fresh market, a 222kW solar canopy, 4MWh of battery storage, a 24/7 lounge, and a dedicated support staff. (link)

• Voltera acquired two new ZEV infrastructure development sites, expanding the total portfolio to 22 sites strategically positioned across key transit hubs in California, Texas, Georgia, Arizona, and Florida. (link) The first site in Wilmington, CA will accommodate 30 stalls and the other in West Sacramento CA up to 100.

• Terawatt Infrastructure opens of its first full-build charging site with 29 DC chargers from ABB to serve light-duty fleets in Inglewood, three miles from LA International Airport (LAX). Terawatt is currently developing 15 sites across several states, including the I-10 corridor from the Port of Long Beach in Los Angeles, California to El Paso, Texas. (link)

• Kwik Trip introduces Kwik Charge for its EV customers at select Midwest locations. (link)

• ChargePoint secured over $19M in funding through its partners to install 248 DC fast charging ports at 45 sites along California highways.

• California has surpassed 150,000 chargers installed statewide, including 137,648 Level 2 chargers and 14,708 fast chargers. (link)

• Hydro-Québec’s Electric Circuit installs its 1,000th fast-charge station. (link)

Europe & Elsewhere

• Wattif acquired the Housing Cooperatives portfolio in Norway from Mer. (link) Wattif is now the largest operator of chargers for housing cooperatives in Europe — 35,000 charging points in 6 countries — and appointed Andreas Strand as its new CEO, taking over from co-founder Robert Svendsen.

• E.ON Drive Infrastructure has launched its first EV charging hub in Wales, offering 10 ultra-fast 300kW charging bays.

• Circle K has now built a truck charging network in Sweden where you can drive from Malmö in the South to Kiruna in the North and only charge at charging places adapted for trucks. (link)

• Milence expands to the UK, plans to open its first truck charging hub in November (link). The company plans a total of 70 charging hubs with 570 charging points installed in ten countries before the end of 2025.

• Milence also opened its first heavy-duty charging hub in Sweden, marking the fourth open in Europe so far. The station has 4x400kW chargers with two charging connectors each, and, as common for their site designs,  plans to add more CCS and MCS chargers in the second phase in 2025. (link) PS, Milence is also planning to roll out charger booking in its network for truck drivers (link).

• Oslo will subsidise the construction of ten new fast-charger for electric trucks. Specifically, Fastcharge will receive NOK 13.5 million (€1.1 million) for the construction of two hubs.

• MAN Truck & Bus and E.ON opened their first e-truck charging station in Berlin. The two plan to create 170 truck charging hubs with 400 charging points across Europe, with 80 locations done by end of 2025. (link)

• Be. EV will build 38 ultra-rapid chargers at four shopping centers in the UK in a £3.5M deal. (link)

• Swiss Post and Fenaco create a joint venture PowerUp to launch 50 fast-charging locations in Switzerland by 2025, 300 locations by 2030. (link)

• Fastned wins the first tender for electric-only service areas in Europe, and is now also piloting ABB’s A400 chargers (link).

• Vianeo and APRR have officially launched the first truck charging corridor between Paris and Lyon, with charging stations ~150km, five rest stops witch 480kW chargers.

• 🇬🇧 Shell opens its first e-truck charging station, with a 400 kW DC charger at the Markham Moor truckstop in Nottinghamshire, UK. (link)

• DAF joins HDV Booking, the European heavy-duty public charging reservation platform for e-truck and e-bus charging. (link) The system should be operational across Europe by 2026. 

• The EV fast-charging network WATER has signed a deal with Korea Expressway Corporation to install 209 Ultra Fast Chargers at 46 highway service areas by the end of 2024. (link)

• MAN Truck & Bus and the football club FC Bayern Munich plan to set up 30 public charging points for e-trucks and e-buses in a bus parking lot at the Allianz Arena. (link) FC Bayern will also receive the first eBus for the team from MAN for the 2025/26 season. 

• India: Tata Power and Tata Motors have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to set up 200 fast-charging stations for electric commercial vehicles in all metro cities. (link)

• Vietnam: PV Power, a subsidiary of the the state-owned oil and gas company Petrovietnam plans to build 1,000 charging stations across Vietnam by 2035. (link)

Phew. That’s it! Thanks for reading.

See you next week,

— Jaan