Recently, Ludwigsburg and Heilbronn each have a new fast charging park for e-cars. They are part of the “Urban Fast Charging Parks in Baden-Württemberg” (USP-BW for short) project implemented by EnBW. The project is funded by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Transport. The fast-charging location in Ludwigsburg with twelve state-of-the-art charging points is located directly on the parking lot of the Breuningerland shopping center in the immediate vicinity of the B27 and A81 traffic junction. This means that it not only offers a charging option for citizens who shop on site: it is also an ideal contact point for travelers in long-distance transport in Baden-Württemberg and on the route from Lake Constance to Würzburg in the north of Bavaria. Just recently, EnBW, together with its wholly owned subsidiary ZEAG, had put another USP-BW fast charging park into operation in Heilbronn. This has eight fast charging points and is located in the parking lot at EDEKA Ueltzhöfer at the Südbahnhof. At both new fast charging locations, EnBW provides 100 percent green electricity at charging points of the highest performance class: Up to 300 kilowatts (kW) of power can flow here. This allows e-car drivers to charge their vehicle with a fresh range of up to 400 kilometers during a 20-minute shopping trip.
Easy e-mobility in everyday life thanks to urban fast charging parks
“One question that we often get is: I would like to drive electrically, but I live in an apartment building and I don’t have my own charging facility. Does that even make sense for me? ”Says Timo Sillober, who as Chief Sales & Operations Officer is responsible for the electromobility division at EnBW. His answer: “A resounding yes. To this end, we are building a fast charging infrastructure in urban areas – and especially in retail outlets – that makes exactly that possible. In this way, our customers can easily integrate charging into their everyday life – even without a wallbox at home. You just do it on the side, when you go shopping. ”This is also the case at the two new EnBW fast charging parks in Ludwigsburg and Heilbronn, which are both located right next to the shops. Customers usually come to these locations by car anyway. “If you take into account the range of modern e-cars and the average number of kilometers traveled per day in Germany, quick charging while shopping is enough for trips over the next two weeks,” says Sillober.
Comprehensive and state-of-the-art fast charging
In Baden-Württemberg, the expansion of the public fast charging infrastructure is taking place, among other things, in cooperation with the state government. The state of Baden-Württemberg is contributing around a third of the total USP-BW investment volume of more than nine million euros. Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann inaugurated the project’s first urban fast-charging park in September 2020, together with Transport Minister Winfried Hermann and EnBW CEO Frank Mastiaux. A total of 16 such centrally located locations for high-speed charging will be created in the 15 largest cities in the state by the time the project is completed. USP-BW has already received two awards: 1st place in the readers’ choice “BEST OF mobility 2021” in the “Infrastructure / Energy Concepts & Charging Systems” category of the VISION mobility magazine and the Car Connectivity Awards 2021 Auto Innovation Award Motor and Sport.
EnBW is also committed to the rapid expansion of the public charging infrastructure outside of Baden-Württemberg: it already operates the largest fast-charging network in Germany and is consistently continuing to expand it nationwide. For example, in September EnBW opened a large fast charging park with 20 charging points in Unterhaching near Munich. As in Ludwigsburg, this is both close to local trade and convenient for long-distance transport. EnBW’s large fast-charging locations should be available every 200 km by the middle of the decade. In between, at a distance of around 40 kilometers, smaller fast-charging locations condense the energy company’s comprehensive fast-charging network.
EnBW plans to operate a total of 2,500 fast-charging locations across Germany by 2025. That is more locations than there are any petrol stations at Germany’s leading mineral oil companies. In this way, EnBW brings ultra-fast charging exactly where electric car drivers need it, whether in retail, in the city, in the surrounding area or in the long-distance network. To this end, EnBW is investing around EUR 100 million annually in the field of electromobility until 2025 alone and is putting a new fast-charging location into operation every day on average.
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