The European Commission has approved more than €600 million in grants for 70 projects aimed at electrifying and decarbonising transport across the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T), marking the latest funding round under the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Facility (AFIF).
The projects span 24 EU countries and cover road, maritime, inland waterway and air transport. According to the Commission, the selected initiatives will “deploy alternative fuels supply infrastructure such as electric recharging stations, hydrogen refuelling stations, electricity supply and ammonia and methanol bunkering facilities.”
The programme will help install more than 1,000 charging points of 150 kW for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles, around 2,000 charging points of 350 kW for heavy-duty trucks, and 586 charging points rated at 1 MW. Funding will also go toward 38 hydrogen refuelling stations for cars, trucks and buses, while 16 European airports will electrify ground handling services.
Roughly 24 seaports will benefit from greener technologies such as Onshore Power Supply (OPS), electrified port services and ammonia bunkering systems. No projects relating to electric aviation were included in this round.
Several German projects were selected, including support for Munich’s public utility company Stadtwerke München, which will receive around €3.8 million to expand bus-charging infrastructure. BP Europa, operating its charging business under the Aral Pulse brand, is set to receive almost €7.4 million for truck-charging expansion, while airport operator Fraport AG will channel more than €2.5 million into electrifying ground handling at Frankfurt Airport. The Port of Hamburg will receive over €4.6 million to build two power systems capable of supplying up to four container ships. E-ON Drive Infrastructure will also secure €8.8 million to expand truck-charging sites in Poland and Hungary.
Documentation for BP’s project shows that the €7.4 million subsidy supports total planned investments of more than €24.6 million, including ten truck-charging hubs located within three kilometres of the TEN-T network. “At each location, the beneficiary plans to deploy 3 x 1MW charging stations, each connected to two recharging points. This setup allows the flexibility to deliver the full 1MW to a single truck or optimizing power distribution to 2 trucks simultaneously,” the project statement says.
Fraport’s €8.5 million project will install around nine power supply systems for parked aircraft, 322 AC charging points for ground handling vehicles and a 10 MWh battery storage unit. Stadtwerke München’s plans include six 400 kW chargers at its East depot, seven 600 kW pantograph chargers along three bus routes, and full electrification of the Moosach depot. The overall project cost is estimated at €12.72 million.
The largest single grant—€61.5 million—was awarded to French company Voltix, which plans total investments of more than €205 million. The company aims to install 288 MW of heavy-vehicle charging capacity at 45 sites across France, Spain, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Austria and Germany.
“We are currently supporting 70 projects with €600 million in EU funding to accelerate the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure across Europe,” EU Transport Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas said. “These investments will strengthen our competitiveness and help make the transition to zero-emission mobility easier and more accessible for all citizens.”
Paloma Aba Garrote, Director of the European Commission’s Executive Agency for Climate, Infrastructure and Environment, added: “This significant EU support for public and private organisations will accelerate the transport sector’s transition toward a sustainable future. With these new projects, more than €2.5 billion in EU grants have been allocated to alternative fuels projects through AFIF since 2021. This demonstrates the EU’s ambition to make zero-emission mobility an everyday reality.”