Amsterdam City Council has ambitious environmental targets and is planning for 10,000 electric vehicles by 2015. The city already has about 100 publicly accessible charging points, which makes Amsterdam one of Europe's trendsetters in the introduction of electric mobility, and the new contract is set to expand the charging provision by at least a further 125 charging stations.
"This contract is very important for Essent and RWE. It's the first time in the Netherlands that electric mobility will cover an entire city and become part of the scenery," says Peter Terium, CEO of Essent. "The charging stations we are setting up in Amsterdam have been developed by RWE and have so far been installed in numerous European countries, including Germany, Poland, Hungary and Austria.”
RWE is already operating over 800 charging points in 14 European countries, and after Berlin, the company sees Amsterdam as its second European metropolitan project where it is seeking to implement a mobility scheme for an entire city. "Electric mobility is being promoted particularly swiftly in the Netherlands. So we can learn from our shared experiences and then apply these to other cities," explains Ingo Alpheus, CEO of RWE Effizienz GmbH.
RWE provides a map showing its charging stations across Germany, which can be accesses here.
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