The abandonment of fossil fuels is something that all of us who work in transport have in mind because every day the need to reduce the carbon footprint of our activity becomes more evidente, and in this paradigm shift we need the involvement of companies and administrations.
However, it is a change of stage and paradigm in which we need the involvement of several actors: in one hand, public administrations, facilitating and simplifying investments in new infrastructures and encouraging the renewal of the transport fleet, and on the other hand, energy and transport companies, which must do their part and take the change as an investment.
In practice, all these developments are extremely complex and costly, so that today the electrification of transport is not yet viable due to the scarcity of suitable recharging points for industrial vehicles, which must have a power output of more than 350kW. Only 1.2% of the points reach this power, as indicated in the magazine ‘Ruta del transporte’. In addition, the location and environment of many of these points are focused on recharging cars, making it impossible to park a truck.
Although new charging points are being installed, we are at a very low quota for the target of ensuring that by the end of 2025, 15% of the TEN-T road network will have public access charging stations for heavy electric vehicles in each direction of traffic and that each charging station will offer an available power of at least 1,400 kW and include at least one charging point with an individual available power of at least 350 kW’.
This has been the work of Sr. Concejo
