MADRID, 9 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Endesa X Way, Endesa’s electric mobility subsidiary, together with Enel X Way, the global division of the Enel group, will deploy more than 900 ultra-fast charging points for light and heavy vehicles with funding from the European aid program Connect Europe, from a European Commission, in the part related to the transport sector.
In the first call of the program, already resolved, the project presented by Endesa X Way and Enel X Way contemplates a total investment of 68.4 million euros, as reported by the Endesa subsidiary in a statement.
With this support, the entities will deploy more than 900 ultra-fast charging points (HPC, High Power Charging for its acronym in English) of 300kW, in 167 locations, mainly in Spain and Italy.
Specifically, Spain will have 252 charging points and 50 locations, and Italy, 636 points in 110 locations, while in Romania 14 points in 7 locations are planned.
The promoters of the project have highlighted that although the technology required by the European Commission in this first program focused exclusively on ultra-fast charging is aimed at continuing to expand ultra-fast chargers for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles, within their plan there will be locations that will allow all These chargers can already be used for heavy transport.
Endesa X Way and Enel X Way have also presented a new project that could mean another 20 new locations on the peninsula with 100 charging points of 300 kW and 400 kW and another 30 locations in Italy with 180 charging points, with a total investment of more than 46 million euros.
In this context, the general director of Endesa X Way, Elena Bernárdez, has underlined the “vocation of service” of the entity to “facilitate the electrification of transport”.
“Introducing ourselves to these calls from the European Commission represents a strategic commitment to electrify a sector as key and relevant as the transport of goods, a fundamental element in the supply chain and logistics of our country, and key to reducing emissions from the transport and Spain as a whole”, he added.
