EU transport ministers from nine countries have backed the first two roadmaps under a European Commission initiative to speed up the roll-out of charging points for zero-emission lorries along two major cross-border freight routes.
The roadmaps cover the Scandinavian – Mediterranean and North Sea – Baltic corridors, part of the EU’s Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T), a system of key transport routes intended to link countries and regions across the bloc, the European Commission informed on Monday.
They were endorsed at the EU Transport Council in Luxembourg alongside Commissioner for Sustainable Transport and Tourism Apostolos Tzitzikostas.
Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland and Sweden supported the roadmaps.
The documents were developed jointly by the Commission and member states and set out priority actions, gaps in infrastructure and investment needs — including in the energy sector — linked to running zero-emission trucks effectively by 2030.
The number of zero-emission trucks is expected to rise from around 26,000 currently to nearly 400,000 by 2030.
Mapping charging projects and next steps
An updated mapping of existing and planned truck-charging projects is also being published, using data from the Commission and member states.
The Clean Transport Corridor Initiative will be extended to all TEN-T corridors later this year.
The initiative was launched on 5 March 2025 as part of the European Automotive Industrial Action Plan, with the Commission saying it is designed to identify infrastructure and investment needs along major routes and support coordinated action to deploy infrastructure for zero-emission road transport.
