Traffic Federal government: fast-charging stations for e-cars at all highway service areas

The Department of Transport Uvek has announced that fast-charging stations for electric cars will be installed at the majority of highway service areas by 2030. Around one hundred rest areas throughout Switzerland will be equipped and some of them will be further developed into charging hubs.

The Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC) announced fast-charging stations "at all 100 rest areas along the national roads" on the online portal X on Monday. This does not mean literally all rest areas, as a spokesperson for the Federal Roads Office (Astra) told the Keystone-SDA news agency, but the majority of them.

In this way, the federal government wants to make its contribution to decarbonization, i.e. the move away from fossil fuels, he added. A call for project proposals was issued in February: five lots with eleven plots each. According to Astra, 55 applications were received by the deadline of May 12. These are currently being evaluated.

One of the goals formulated in the Federal Department of Transport's "Electric Mobility Roadmap" is to set up 20,000 publicly accessible charging stations in Switzerland by the end of 2025. The fast-charging stations on freeways would be part of this.