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'Prepared for the future' LCW can grow in electric transport with its own charging plaza

Logistics service provider LCW Groningen recently acquired its own charging station for its electric trucks. While the company currently operates with three fully electric trucks, a tenfold increase in that number should eventually be possible thanks in part to the charging facility.
'Year full of challenges' Fastned adjusts expectations for 2025 after slow EV growth

Fastned has downgraded its forecasts for 2025 due to smaller growth in the number of electric vehicles and longer lead times for building charging stations. The company is downgrading its revenue target of 400 thousand euros per charging station.
Transition of petrol stations in Utrecht More fast chargers along ring roads and fewer traditional petrol stations in city centres

Utrecht municipality recently presented its implementation programme ‘Transition Petrol Stations’, aimed at making petrol stations more sustainable. The programme aims to support filling stations in the transition to sustainable energy sources, including the installation of charging points for electric vehicles and the use of alternative fuels.
Other focus Managing charging stations from Vandebron to Justplugin

Vandebron has handed over the management of all its charging stations for electric vehicles to Justplugin. The energy company wants to focus more on other core activities and will henceforth leave this part of the operation to a specialised party.
Along European motorways Fastned and One Hundred Restrooms enter European partnership

Charging player Fastned and One Hundred restrooms have entered into a strategic partnership, clinched in a European framework agreement. Together, they aim to offer electric drivers and others across Europe “a quality restroom experience”.
Subject to strict rules Flemish government wants to definitively allow supertrucks on motorways

Flemish Mobility Minister Annick De Ridder (N-VA) wants to allow so-called supertrucks on Flemish motorways within two years. So write De Standaard and the other Media House newspapers on Thursday.
Prime McDonalds joins hands with Q8 for fast-charging infrastructure

The very first Belgian McDonald’s restaurant with Q8 fast-charging station has opened in Heusden-Zolder. Thanks to a strategic partnership with Q8 and Storm, customers can charge their electric vehicle there while consuming their meal.
Price rise Charging rates rise due to elimination of electricity tax credit

Prices at public charging stations will rise by an average of 7 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) next year. This reports comparison site Laadpastop10. The increase is mainly due to the removal of the tax rebate on electricity, as included in the Tax Plan 2025.
panel discussion ‘Petrol car becomes the expensive alternative to electric driving’

In the coming years, government policies will make electric driving less attractive, but in the longer term, petrol cars will really become the more expensive alternative. Electric driving will then become more accessible to the masses than driving on fossil fuel, several experts believe.