Germany approved up to €1.6 billion in 2026 for an initial national motorway rollout: 725 CCS and 685 megawatt charging points across 124 previously unserviced rest areas — the largest single public truck-charging commitment in Europe to date, sitting alongside the €1 billion BMV programme for depot and hub infrastructure.

The motorway programme targets the exact gap the corridor-readiness test identifies: long-haul electrification fails without reliable high-power stops at break-compatible spacing, and commercial CPOs under-serve low-traffic rest areas where the economics don’t yet close. Public funding for ‘unserviced’ locations is the state deliberately buying the coverage the market won’t — the AFIR mandate implemented with German thoroughness.

For fleet planners: the Autobahn map is the first national corridor system where a 500 km-class electric tractor (eActros 600, E-Tech T 780) will be able to run genuine long-haul on public infrastructure alone. Track the rest-area commissioning list against your lanes; our long-haul guide will carry the readiness map as sites go live through 2027–28.