Tank & Rast to set up EV charging stations in 400 sites, company says

Tank & Rast will install "quick service charging stations for electric cars at its approximately 400 own motorway sites during the next years," company representatives told PetrolPlaza by email on December 29. The installations will take place by 2017, the company added.

"With this initiative, Tank & Rast aims at sustainably improving the electric power supply for e-cars on the German motorways," the company said, adding that the effort will be in cooperation with German authorities.

Tank & Rast has already been a partner in a pilot project for quick service charging stations between Cologne and Hamburg since 2011, the company said.

The information followed a request by PetrolPlaza to seek to confirm similar information published by Reuters on December 27.

Reuters had said in a story that German authorities are working to try to get enough service stations in Germany to help provide service for up to one million electric vehicles before the end of the decade. The Tank & Rast EV installations were part of that effort, it said.