Truck Charging 2.0
Co-Innovation Project
May - December 2026

1. Challenge

Freight electrification is speeding up, but the systems behind it are not keeping pace

Sales of heavy electric trucks in Europe are set to grow strongly. From a market share of around 2.2% in 2024, sales are expected to multiply by 2030. But every additional e-truck also makes fleet operations more complex.

Depot charging is highly fragmented today. Instead of one end-to-end solution, there are many isolated building blocks: charge point management (CPMS), transport management (TMS), energy management systems (EMS), charging infrastructure software (LIS), load management (LMS), photovoltaics (PV) and battery storage (BESS).

At the same time, growing charging demand meets volatile electricity prices, limited grid connection capacity and changing grid fee regulations. Without smart links between logistics and energy processes, scaling electric fleets profitably remains difficult. The result is often manual planning and a system that is hard to scale.

2. Our Approach

Solutions developed together with partners across the value chain

In the Truck Charging 2.0 co-innovation project, we brought established companies and startups from industry, energy, logistics and technology to the same table. Over six months, we work together on solutions in a structured process with workshops every two weeks. Our approach is based on design thinking, because lasting solutions only come about when we first truly understand users’ problems and needs.

The focus is not on a finished, market-ready product, but on workable concepts and functional MVPs, from defining the problem to testing them with real users and experts.

This lays the foundation for the next generation of truck charging products and solutions.

3. Topics & Goals

Together with our partners, we are working on the questions that are still holding back the electrification of logistics depots. Electrification only succeeds when the individual building blocks, System Orchestration and Flexible Energy Hubs, work together:

System Orchestration: How do we create standards for successfully electrifying logistics depots?

Flexible / Shared Energy Hubs: How can we make logistics depots more flexible and profitable, and open their charging infrastructure to external users?

Project Partners

Truck Charging Is Teamwork

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