Fastned, who are the Dutch who want to electrify cars in Italy
The Dutch charging station startup led by Michiel Langezaal has a few hundred stations in its homeland, Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, France and Switzerland. And now Fastned seems to be focusing on Italy
After a growth that did not experience interruptions even with the lockdown, leading it to colonize much of Northern Europe, Fastned, a Dutch company (literally meaning fast Holland ) active in the fast charging sector, has signed a contract with A4 Holding, the business unit Italian company of the Abertis Group, to build its first fast charging station on the A4 Brescia-Padua for electric vehicles moving on Italian territory and those traveling from Switzerland to southern Italy.
FASTNED ARRIVES IN ITALY
The station will have 8 columns that deliver up to 400 kW, with the possibility of doubling its size up to a total of 16 columns and a series of solar panels on the roof of the shelter. The startup led by Michiel Langezaal , founder and CEO, raised 150 million euros in 2021 and the following year reported that it had supplied 51,900 MWh of electricity. A singular race, his, since it was not born as an offshoot of some car or oil company.
Earlier this week I was delighted to formally open @Fastned super quick charging super hub for electric vehicles at the Martlesham Park and Ride. Great facility and with 300kW chargers, more confidence for drivers to make fhe switch to EV https://t.co/7GcSecA3pO pic.twitter.com/NUfcnkLTZB
— Thérèse Coffey (@theresecoffey) March 12, 2023
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But that's not stopping it from expanding. Just to stay in 2023, it has completed the fourteenth station in the United Kingdom (small numbers, compared to the country, of course, but which anticipate the desire to attack that market too), with the forecast of reaching 16 soon.
In addition to the UK, Fastned is present in Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, France and Switzerland. And in France a station has recently been inaugurated near Metz on the A31 motorway with 16 HPC columns with up to 300 kW of power.
In total the group has crossed the finish line of 250 stations with over 1500 charging stations. The Dutch startup's latest moves have seen it win tenders for two service stations on the E17 motorway in Flanders, Belgium with the approval of Flemish road authority Agentschap Wegen en Verkeer (AWV). These are buildings located on both sides of the motorway, one in each direction.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/fastned-chi-sono-gli-olandesi-che-vogliono-elettrizzare-le-auto-in-italia/ on Tue, 12 Sep 2023 08:50:14 +0000.