Milence opens three more truck charging parks in Germany

These three new locations bring the number of Milence charging parks in Germany to five hubs. The first two were opened by the charging joint venture between Daimler Truck, Traton and the Volvo Group at the end of 2024 on the A9 motorway in Vockerode in Saxony-Anhalt and at the Hermsdorfer Kreuz junction in Thuringia. Charging parks are now being added in western and central Germany. In Recklinghausen near the A2 motorway, Milence has installed six HPC chargers with up to 400 kW for trucks. These are “strategically located on the northern edge of the Ruhr region,” as Milence emphasises. In Koblenz (near the A61 motorway) and in Kirchberg an der Jagst in Baden-Württemberg (near the A6 motorway), there are an additional eight charging points each.

Since the start of business operations in 2022, Milence has set a target of 1,700 public truck charging points for Europe within five years. The development activities are currently focussed on ten countries, namely the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the UK, Denmark, Poland and Spain.

Milence selected the new German locations primarily with a view to the international transport routes. For example, the A2 motorway with Recklinghausen as the new loading location connects the North Sea ports (Rotterdam and Antwerp) with Hanover, Berlin and Poland. The A61 motorway, with Koblenz as a stop, runs between Cologne and Frankfurt, while the A6 motorway, with the Kirchberg charging park, connects southern Germany with the French border and the Rhine-Neckar and Nuremberg metropolitan regions.

Milence intends to increase the charging capacity at its locations in a second phase, partly by introducing megawatt chargers. This has been confirmed for Recklinghausen. By 2027, Milence aims to have installed a total of 284 MCS charging points at 71 locations in the ten EU member states in question (“in line with the EU funding initiative for alternative fuel infrastructure AFIF”).

“Germany is the heart and central hub of European road freight transport. Today’s opening of our hub in Recklinghausen marks an important milestone in closing infrastructure gaps for e-mobility in western Germany,” said Anja van Niersen, CEO of Milence, at the inauguration.

Over 30 per cent of European road freight traffic passes through Germany, and therefore considers the country to be one of its key strategic cornerstones. Germany is thus set to become one of the largest markets in the Milence network by the end of 2025, with a total of eight operational charging parks. German hubs have already been announced in Lohfelden (near Kassel), Himmelkron and Hüttenberg. Internationally, Milence aims to have more than 30 charging parks in nine markets by the end of the year. These are generally also equipped with amenities for drivers, such as toilets and showers, lounges and vending machines. In future, Milence also wants to introduce a booking tool for planning charging processes.

According to Milence, the first electric freight transport corridors have now taken shape, including long-distance routes such as Barcelona-Lyon, Paris-Hanover and Antwerp-Stockholm. A charging park in the north of France has also been opened recently in Dunkerque. Another hub is under construction near Saint-Witz, near Paris.

Milence recently published an assessment of how quickly and where the expansion of truck charging infrastructure should take place. In a white paper, Milence provides a data-based analysis and specifically shows how a targeted expansion of the network along central corridors and clear political measures could close existing gaps.

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