We are excited to announce that the 2nd European Truck Charging Symposium on 30th September and 1st October 2025 at Fraunhofer ENIQ in Berlin was a success. This event brought together industry leaders, policymakers, researchers, and stakeholders to explore the future of truck charging infrastructure, grid integration, and zero-emission freight transport. The symposium was organized as part of the projects "HoLa – High Performance Charging for Long-Haul Trucking" (funded by the German Federal Ministry of Transport) as well as "MACBETH - Multipoint Megawatt Charging for Battery Electric Truck Hubs" (funded by the European Union).

Within the HoLa project, we inaugurated the first public Megawatt Charging System (MCS) point for battery-electric trucks in Germany at the Lipperland Süd motorway rest area near Bielefeld on 29 September 2025.

A new joint study by Fraunhofer ISI and Amazon provides critical insights as to the optimal number and location of public fast-charging stations required to enable the widespread electrification of long-haul trucking in Europe. Using traffic flow estimates for 2030, the study built on Amazon’s open-source CHALET tool to analyse 20,000 potential public truck charging locations along the major European highways and a large data set of 1.6 million truck trip combinations. The results suggest that just 1,000 charging stations equipped with Megawatt Charging System (MCS) outlets could enable about 91% of expected long-haul trucking traffic.