Description
A well-functioning transport sector contributes 5% to our GDP and is crucial for the competitiveness of the EU economy. Whereas European truck-makers have a competitive edge in producing electric trucks, the infrastructure for their deployment across the transport corridors must be scaled up to give confidence to transport operators that electric trucks can be charged enroute. Another hurdle has been delayed access to the electricity grid, holding back Europe’s potential to trigger investment in this key sector.
A CCT Pilot was launched in March 2025 to fast-track at least 400 truck charging locations with over 2,900 charging points along two heavily used corridors on the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T), namely the North Sea-Baltic (Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Sweden and Finland) and Scandinavian-Mediterranean (Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Italy and Malta).
The project will improve coordination and deployment of financial support and enabling policy measures. Six months after its launch, in a Ministerial Declaration, 9 Member States together with the EU Transport Commissioner agreed to deploy in an accelerated manner these charging locations. The CCT will assist in mobilising investment - from European Investment Bank instruments to EU funding, and national and regional funding. In June 2025, a European financing call under the Connecting Europe Facility already delivered financing for 20% of the required sites and 15% of the required aggregate power output. Beyond investments, the CCT approach requires a commitment from Member States to implement enabling reforms to accelerate access to the electricity grid.
Following interest from other Member States to accelerate the deployment of charging stations, the Commission announced the intention to scale-up the work to the remaining seven TEN-T corridors at the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy (TTE) Council meeting on 8 June 2026. At the same Council meeting, roadmaps were endorsed for the Scandinavian–Mediterranean and North Sea–Baltic TEN-T corridors.
Keys facts and figures
Estimated preliminary timeline
- 16 September 2025
Signature of the Ministerial Declaration
- September 2025-January 2026
First disbursements for 54 charging stations
- June 2026
Roadmaps for two TEN-T corridors endorsed by transport ministers in the margins of the TTE Council
- September 2026
Start outreach in MS to accelerate deployment and to design derisking instrument
- 2030
Additional 400 electric trucks charging stations