Background record: Siemens introduced SICHARGE FLEX in October 2025 — a charging architecture scaling from 480 kW to over 1.68 MW, supporting CCS and up to four MCS points through one power system — and reported OMV as its first commercial customer for an Austrian site serving heavy transport.

Two structural notes. First, the supplier layer is complete: ABB (MCS1200, April 2025), Siemens (1.68 MW), Kempower, Power Electronics (1.44 MW), Alpitronic (1 MW) and Huawei all ship megawatt-class hardware — the charger is no longer anyone’s excuse. Second, OMV’s entry marks the European oil majors’ pivot into truck megawatt charging on their motorway real estate — the same coalition logic as Sinopec in China’s swap build and BP Pulse’s Ashford plans in the UK: whoever owns the rest-stop land and the grid connection owns the corridor’s future.

Austria is a fitting first market: GO-Maut already grades truck tolls by CO₂ with profound zero-emission reductions, so transit electrification on the Brenner and Tauern axes pays from day one. Watch OMV’s commissioning pace against Austria’s transit corridors.