Energy company E.ON is focusing on the future electric transport market. As a full-service provider of electric mobility and charging infrastructure, E.ON already offers access to a vast network of over 160,000 charging points across Europe. The goal is to have 200,000 charging points by the end of 2022, the company says.
With the aim of significantly expanding its business with products, technologies and services for electric commercial vehicle fleets, E.ON has brought together its existing activities into a new organizational unit. By 2025, E.ON’s e-mobility offering for electric charging of commercial vehicles will be expanded to become the market leader in Europe under the name E.ON Drive eTransport.
Battery-powered commercial vehicles are yet another exception. Unlike the car market, the transport sector is currently only at the beginning of its evolution towards zero-emission mobility. But the interest of companies and municipalities in electrifying their car fleets is growing. With climate targets, increasing freight and electric motors in local and long-distance public transport, the challenges of charging infrastructure, land use and grid connection are also becoming more demanding.
“It is clear that the EU can only achieve its climate goals if CO2 emissions from transport are drastically reduced. Here are the big levers for climate protection. Electric vehicles will therefore gain considerably in importance in the commercial vehicle sector as well,” says Patrick Lammers, COO Commercial at E.ON.
“Charging solutions and integrated mobility and energy concepts are a core competence of E.ON. Through our new positioning, we want to become, in the future, the leading provider of integrated energy and charging solutions for electric commercial vehicles in Europe. In this way, together with cities, municipalities and companies, we will make the vision of sustainable transport a reality,” adds Lammers.
E.ON is now preparing to play a leading role in the electric transport market. The business segment with sustainable mobility solutions for the electrification of freight transport and local passenger transport is not new for the company. Since 2016, E.ON has been implementing corresponding designs and charging solutions for van, truck and bus fleets in Europe. The objective is to further advance electrification as a key enabler for sustainable supply and logistics chains, as well as attractive local and long-distance transport, together with partners from the entire electric transport ecosystem. In addition, solutions for the still young market of electrically driven construction machinery will complete the portfolio in the future.