Free loading from electric cars will in future to hundreds of branches of the retailer Lidl to be possible. Near the motorway, even fast-charging vehicles with more than 50 kilowatts are planned.
March 11, 2019, 4:03 pm,
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400 Lidl stores are to receive charging stations.
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Grocery retailer Lidl plans to set up a nationwide network of 400 charging stations in its customer parking areas. Like the company announced on Monday, the existing network of currently 30 charging stations is to be expanded by March 2020. During the opening hours, customers could recharge electricity from renewable sources for free, they said. As a result, Lidl will become “the operator of the largest e-shop network in the German food retail sector as well as a driver for innovation and climate protection”.
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New buildings of branches should therefore be compulsory equipped with a charging station. In a modernization branches also got a charging station. In the long term, as many locations as possible would be equipped with at least two charging points. In addition, additional charging stations would be built from now on at additional branches near the autobahn and in rural areas.
The charging stations usually have two connectors for direct current (DC) of type CCS-2 and Chademo with 50 kW as well as a three-phase plug for 43 kW. According to Lidl, “high-performance DC systems are to be used near the autobahn”. When asked, the company was initially unable to communicate the performance of these columns. However, electric cars should be able to recharge up to 200 km in range within 30 minutes.
With the expansion Lidl wants to compress the charging network in Germany so that the maximum distance between two charging stations is 50 km. “On average, it will even be under 20 kilometers,” says Wolf Tiedemann, Managing Director Central Services at Lidl Germany. In order to advance the mobility turnaround in Germany, “we must take away from people the concern of a limited range”.
In addition to Lidl other trading companies equip their customer parking with charging stations. For example, the retailer Kaufland had commissioned its nationwide 100th charging station at the beginning of February 2019, reported the Handelsblatt, By the end of 2020, another 100 fast charging stations are planned nationwide. The retailer Aldi South has at almost 100 locations Charging columns installed. The furniture retailer Ikea also wants to equip its 50 branches in Germany with charging options.
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