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Multipoint megAwatt Charging for Battery Electric Truck Hubs

Project description

Towards mass deployment of megawatt charging systems

The transition to electric long-haul trucking with Megawatt Charging Systems (MCS) is critical for decarbonising logistics. Addressing adoption challenges through focused research is essential to achieving environmental targets, including a 90 % emissions reduction by 2040. The EU-funded MACBETH project will pilot user-centric MCS charging hubs and develop tools for large-scale implementation across Europe. Two demonstration sites will be established in the Nordics and Benelux regions, addressing diverse geographic contexts and user needs while providing valuable insights for stakeholders in industry, research, and policy. The project will also showcase charging infrastructure for regional and long-haul electric trucks along TEN-T corridors and at logistics terminals, paving the way for widespread adoption.

Objective

The transition to electric long-haul trucking facilitated by Megawatt Charging Systems (MCS) is essential for the efficient decarbonization of the logistics transport sector. Despite the significant technological progress made, vital challenges for full adoption and scaling of the MCS systems are still to overcome. Addressing the latter though targeted research and innovation piloting activities will be crucial for realizing the full potential of MCS technology towards a significant leap not only in electrifying the commercial transport but for the achievement of broader environmental goals of the Paris Agreement, EU Green Deal and Fitfor55 package of 90% reduction of the emissions by 2040.
In response to the challenges, MACBETHMULTIPOINT MEGAWATT CHARGING FOR BATTERY ELECTRIC TRUCK HUBS aims to pilot and showcase user-centric MCS charging hubs combined with tools that can facilitate the rapid and mass deployment and scale up of such systems in Europe. To address many of technical, social and economic challenges of mass deployment of megawatt chargers MACBETH intends to build two demonstration sites, in Nordics and Benelux area of Europe with the intention to cover various geographic contexts, operational conditions and scenarios, users needs, and business cases and provide valuable experiences and learnings for various industrial, research and policies stakeholders for future deployments. With a strong focus on its industrial cluster, MACBETH contributes to the real-world demonstration of charging infrastructure and service offerings for regional and long-haul electric trucks along TEN-T corridors, logistic terminals, and depots covering multiple countries and it is set to deliver system-level multipoint MCS hub concept at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of 8 by the end of the project.

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TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT OY
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€ 952 569,00
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02150 Espoo
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Manner-Suomi Helsinki-Uusimaa Helsinki-Uusimaa
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