Shell provides Amazon with charge stations available for booking by electric trucks
Shell is assisting Amazon in expanding electric truck transportation in Germany. As part of this partnership, the oil company provides public fast-charging stations in Hannover and Kirchheim, with additional locations planned in Koblenz for Amazon’s fleet. Reservations can be made in advance for the charging spots at these selected locations.
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The core of this cooperation is a reservation system that Shell calls “Home-away-from-Home”: fleet operators book charging slots in advance through an online tool. At selected locations, individual charging bays are equipped with barriers that remain open under normal conditions, automatically close before a reservation is made, and reopen at the scheduled time via license plate recognition. This approach aims to make charging stops more reliably integrated into route planning and compliance with legal driving and rest time requirements. Shell also sees this as a solution for fleets that do not have their own charging infrastructure at every location.
"Partnering with Shell provides us with additional charging options on key routes in Germany, while the ability to reserve charging slots helps us plan routes, stops, and drivers' rest times with greater certainty," says Andreas Marschner, Vice President of Worldwide Sustainable Operations at Amazon. Melanie Falkenstern, Head of Fleet Solutions DACH at Shell, highlights the easy access through the Shell Card and notes that services like “Home-away-from-Home” are designed to enable fleets to charge according to their operational schedules."
According to Shell, Germany’s integrated charging network for heavy commercial vehicles currently includes around 150 charging points, in addition to more than 2,400 charging points for passenger cars. For Amazon, Shell’s public charging network serves as a complement to its own charging infrastructure. The company is building several hundred truck charging points at locations across Europe for its growing fleet of electric trucks, according to its own statements. Meanwhile, Shell reports that there are now more than 45 heavy electric trucks operating in Amazon’s delivery network in Germany.
More than 50 eActros 600 by the End of the Year
Just a few days ago, Mercedes-Benz Trucks delivered the first 27 eActros 600 units to Amazon in Germany. By the end of 2026, over 50 of these electric trucks are set to be in use for Amazon there. These vehicles are part of an order placed in early 2025 for more than 200 eActros 600, of which around 50 are allocated to Germany and approximately 140 to the UK. Amazon uses these trucks for what is known as the last mile delivery, mainly for transporting goods between logistics centers and urban areas.
Alexa total, Amazon plans to invest over one billion euros in electrifying and decarbonizing its European logistics network, with more than 400 million euros allocated to Germany. However, these investment targets are not new: Amazon announced them in 2022 as part of a five-year plan. At that time, the company also pledged to expand its European electric truck fleet from 38 to over 1,500 vehicles, including more than 500 in Germany.
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