Voltix opens France’s most powerful electric truck charging station
In Vierzon, Voltix has opened its first public fast-charging station for heavy electric trucks. The facility initially offers four charging points, each with a capacity of up to 1.5 MW, and is planned to be expanded to eight charging points in the future.
The Voltix station in Vierzon currently provides four charging points, each with a capacity of up to 1.5 MW.
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Voltix, a subsidiary of Vinci Concessions, has opened its first location in France for its charging network of heavy electric trucks in Vierzon, in the Cher department. According to the company, with a charging capacity of up to 1.5 MW per point, it is currently the most powerful truck charging station in France.
Initially, four charging stations are available, with the plan to increase this number to eight in the long term. Each station is equipped with CCS and MCS connectors. According to Voltix, heavy electric trucks can recharge enough energy to continue driving there in about 30 to 45 minutes—aligning with the required driving break after 4.5 hours of travel.
The location is situated at a strategically important traffic junction. Fourzon lies at the intersection of the A20 highway between Paris and Toulouse and the A71 highway heading toward Clermont-Ferrand. The nearby A85 also provides access to directions toward Tours and the Atlantic coast.
Voltix plans 50 locations by 2028
Vierzon is the first location in a larger expansion program. Vinci Concessions, Épopée Gestion, and ADEME Investissement announced in September that they would invest nearly 90 million euros in a network of fast charging stations for electric trucks. Around 20 locations are planned in the initial phase, mostly in France. Voltix intends to expand to Germany and Spain later; the company aims to have 50 locations by 2028.
At the opening in Vierzon, Renault Trucks, Volvo Trucks, Daimler Truck, Scania, and MAN presented latest heavy electric trucks with MCS capability. Voltix noted that the number of registrations for heavy electric trucks in France has multiplied since 2021.
In Germany, Voltix is already involved in building public charging infrastructure for heavy commercial vehicles. Together with Eliso, the company won the bid as a consortium for 25 locations in the government-initiated fast-charging network for trucks at unattended highway rest areas.
The Vierzon site is also part of the DRIVE-FR project and is co-financed through the European funding program CEF-AFIF. This program supports the development of charging infrastructure for heavy commercial vehicles along the trans-European transport network TEN-T.
Voltix positions the station as part of the decarbonization effort for road freight transport in France. According to the company, 89 percent of domestic land freight transport occurs by road, while road freight accounts for 7.4 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions.
"An electric truck without charging infrastructure is just a promise," says Nicolas Notebaert, General Director of Concessions at Vinci. With Vierzon, they aim to demonstrate that the necessary infrastructure for electric long-distance transport is already being developed.