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IONITY

IONITY is installing the largest non-proprietary High-Power Charging Network covering 24 European countries (21 EU Member States) from Norway to Italy and Portugal to Estonia.

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Response to Clean corporate vehicles

11 Aug 2025

Corporate fleets are a decisive lever for accelerating the shift to electric mobility in Europe. They can bring large volumes of electric vehicles onto the road within a short timeframe, boosting market uptake and making clean mobility more accessible. When these vehicles enter the used car market, they provide affordable, high-quality options for private customers. Fleet vehicles also lower the threshold for first-hand experience with electric mobility and evidence from the past decade shows that such experience is one of the most effective drivers of change. People become familiar with the performance, convenience, and benefits of electric vehicles without having to make the investment themselves. The economic case is equally strong. BEVs have a proven lower total cost of ownership than any other vehicle type, allowing European companies to reduce operating costs. Given that corporate fleets are typically renewed much quicker than privately owned vehicles, they consistently supply the second-hand market with attractive vehicles. A high renewal rate not only benefits consumers but also supports sales in the European automotive industry. A targeted policy framework for zero-emission corporate fleets is an effective tool, serving multiple objectives at once: accelerating decarbonisation, broadening access to clean vehicles, strengthening the European automotive sector, and enabling charging infrastructure providers to invest with confidence. This requires effective financing instruments, fiscal incentives, and long-term policy stability to support companies in making the transition.
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Response to Data types for alternative fuels infrastructure

29 Dec 2024

We welcome the opportunity to comment on the proposals for delegated acts to the AFIR. We feel it is important to highlight the fact, that the industry and policymakers are working towards the same goal, which is improving the charging experience for EV drivers in Europe. It is our daily motivation to improve and create a better charging service for our customers. At the same time, we face significant challenges, as there are limits to resources, both personnel and financial and we have to manage the growth and developments in all areas to ensure we can grow and build a long-term sustainable business. The result is a strong focus on effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed measures. Additional Data Types - Mobility service providers offering contract-based recharging. There are MSP offering their connections to CPO to third party MSP services. So Apps or Services offer an MSP functionality, without truly being a MSP. They use the CPO connection of a larger MSP to access the networks. The result is, that the CPO will never know the smaller MSP and MSP-like services behind the initial MSP. The solution to the intended result of EV drivers being able to know which MSP work on which charging stations is to require MSP to display all CPO they are connected to. Any MSP knows at all times which CPO they are connected to. The MSP also control the interface to the EV drivers. If CPO report the (incomplete) list of MSP to the NAP, the EV drivers need another source to find out which MSP works on the charging station. It is much more sensible to present this information in the MSP Apps, ideally showing only those Charge Points that can actually be used with their service. If the requirement is demanded of CPO, it essentially incentivises CPO to reduce roaming connections, as it becomes more of a burden to report all the MSP connections. Pan-European CPO like IONITY deal with hundreds of MSP via all sorts of roaming interfaces. Not all roaming platforms notify the CPO, if a new MSP is offering a charging service on their network. The offer-to-all concept allows any MSP to simply offer access to predefined conditions to the CPO charging network, without any further interaction from the CPO. It is open to every MSP at the same conditions. However, if the CPO now has to report all new MSP connections, it is an incentive to pull out of this offer-to-all concept and only offer bilateral contracts to MSP. This process is of course a lot more complex and takes a lot longer, limiting the number of MSP having access to the charging network.
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Response to Standards for wireless recharging, electric road system and vehicle-to grid-communication of recharging infrastructure

29 Dec 2024

We welcome the opportunity to comment on the proposals for delegated acts to the AFIR. We feel it is important to highlight the fact, that the industry and policymakers are working towards the same goal, which is improving the charging experience for EV drivers in Europe. It is our daily motivation to improve and create a better charging service for our customers. At the same time, we face significant challenges, as there are limits to resources, both personnel and financial and we have to manage the growth and developments in all areas to ensure we can grow and build a long-term sustainable business. The result is a strong focus on effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed measures. This leads us to the feedback in the document attached.
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