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Milence

Established in July 2022 as a joint venture between Daimler Truck, the TRATON GROUP, and the Volvo Group, Milence is committed to build and operate 1,700 high-performance public charging points in Europe by 2027, accelerating the transition to zero-emission heavy-duty vehicles, and setting the stage for a cleaner, more sustainable tomorrow.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Arthur Corbin (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné)

15 Oct 2025 · Charging Infrastructure

Meeting with Arthur Corbin (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné), Bertrand L'Huillier (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné) and

1 Oct 2025 · HDVs

Meeting with Elena Martines (Cabinet of Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva) and Amazon Europe Core SARL and

1 Oct 2025 · Challenges for the EU Heavy-duty vehicles (HDV) industry sector and ecosystem as well as progress on the Industrial Action Plan for R&I related aspects

Meeting with Anna Panagopoulou (Cabinet of Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas), Helena Hinto (Cabinet of Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas), Simone Ritzek-Seidl (Cabinet of Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas) and

1 Oct 2025 · 1. Clean transport corridors 2. Corporate fleet initiative 3. HDV related elements 4. updates on what happens by then with the working groups set up at the HDV dialogue

Meeting with Jan-Christoph Oetjen (Member of the European Parliament) and Amazon Europe Core SARL and

1 Oct 2025 · De-risking Investment in Electric Heavy-Duty Transpor

Meeting with Arthur Corbin (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné)

12 Sept 2025 · HDV infrastructure

Meeting with Kurt Vandenberghe (Director-General Climate Action)

11 Sept 2025 · Overleg over CO₂-doelstellingen en laadinfrastructuur voor e-HDV’s

Response to Clean corporate vehicles

5 Sept 2025

The upcoming Corporate Vehicles legislation must be designed first and foremost as a de-risking instrument for the electrification of heavy-duty transport. Demand signals from shippers, long-term freight agreements, harmonised electric freight clauses, and targeted EU financial instruments all point to a single objective: turning early ambition into bankable projects. At this stage of market development, the greatest barrier is not technology, but the market risks that prevent private capital from flowing at scale into zero-emission trucks and the charging infrastructure that underpins them. By aligning regulatory incentives with financial innovation, the Corporate Vehicles framework can close this gap: giving shippers ESG advantages, enabling operators to access credit, and providing CPOs with the long-term certainty needed to build infrastructure ahead of demand. If structured around this principle, the initiative will accelerate investment, reduce financing costs, and ensure Europes freight sector moves decisively towards zero emissions. Please find our position paper attached.
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Response to Sustainable transport investment plan

29 Aug 2025

The Sustainable Transport Investment Plan (STIP) should explicitly addresses the investment challenges facing the rollout of electric heavy-duty vehicle (e-HDV) charging infrastructure. While todays public charging network already enables early-stage adoption of long-haul e-trucks in regions where suitable infrastructure exists, it is neither sufficiently comprehensive nor evenly distributed across Europe. Moreover, almost all truck-specific charging infrastructure currently relies on CCS technology, while the transition to Megawatt Charging System (MCS), essential for cost-efficient long-haul freight, is still in its infancy due to delays in standardisation, regulatory integration, and the commercialisation of MCS-capable vehicles. Looking ahead, targeted growth of an MCS-ready charging network will be critical to keeping pace with rising fleet numbers and securing reliability and coverage across all major freight corridors. Yet, adoption of e-HDV is not uniform: demand is concentrated in logistics hubs and along core corridors, while other regions lag behind. This underlines the need for a market-driven infrastructure model, enabled by long-term policy clarity and stable investment signals, to ensure that infrastructure is deployed efficiently and in line with real-world freight patterns. To deliver this growth, the central barrier is financing. Charging point operators (CPOs) face a high-risk investment environment characterised by: limited early demand visibility, bankability constraints that discourage private lenders and long administrative lead times delaying revenue generation. Without early policy intervention, these barriers will prevent the timely rollout of the 10 GW of high-power charging capacity (CCS and MCS) needed by 2030, requiring investments of approximately 10 billion. The STIP should recognise that subsidies alone will not be sufficient to unlock private capital at the necessary scale. What is urgently required is a dedicated EU guarantee-backed financial instrument, administered through the EIB or in cooperation with national promotional banks. Such a mechanism should: Protect against early demand and utilisation shortfalls, Improve financing conditions and debt affordability for CPOs, Enable investment in high-impact corridors, ensuring complementarity with AFIR and the Clean Transport Corridor initiative. We estimate that guarantees covering up to 50% of the required investment volume (around 5 billion) will be necessary to leverage the full 10 billion scale-up through blended finance. Subsidies (e.g. AFIF) should remain in place to reduce upfront capital expenditure, particularly for capex-intensive MCS hubs with lower near-term commercial returns. Over time, as utilisation improves, reliance on guarantees can be phased out, while targeted subsidies continue to bridge residual cost gaps. Key recommendation: The STIP should prioritise the establishment of an EU-level guarantee mechanism for e-HDV charging infrastructure, complementing existing subsidy schemes. This is the single most effective measure to de-risk private investment, accelerate MCS deployment, and ensure that Europes long-haul freight decarbonisation keeps pace with climate and competitiveness objectives.
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Meeting with Eric Von Breska (Director Mobility and Transport)

10 Jul 2025 · Development of recharging pints for heavy duty vehicles

Meeting with Jan-Christoph Oetjen (Member of the European Parliament)

6 Jun 2025 · Exchange on public charging hubs for HDVs

Meeting with Pascal Canfin (Member of the European Parliament)

24 Feb 2025 · Automotive Action Plan

Meeting with Herald Ruijters (Deputy Director-General Mobility and Transport) and

20 Feb 2025 · Automotive Action Plan; EU funding support post-AFIF

Meeting with Bas Eickhout (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Feb 2025 · Automotive action plan

Meeting with Maroš Šefčovič (Executive Vice-President) and

8 Apr 2024 · Dialogue on Clean Mobility

Meeting with Ditte Juul-Joergensen (Director-General Energy) and Transport and Environment (European Federation for Transport and Environment) and

8 Apr 2024 · Energy market

Meeting with Aleksandra Baranska (Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič)

13 Mar 2024 · Clean mobility