France 🇫🇷 is aiming to increase the number of high-power public EV charging points alongs the main routes:

By 2035
22,000 150 kW chargers for 🚗 at 900 motorway locations

8,000 chargers for 🚚🚛 (mix of 800, 400 kW and 100 kW for long-duration) at
560 motorway locations

https://www.ecologie.gouv.fr/presse/plan-electrification-bornes-tous-grands-trajets-dici-2035

Aldi Suisse has inaugurated 🇨🇭 Switzerland's largest rooftop solar installation, with a capacity of 10 MWp / 8 GWh, at its distribution centre in Domdidier.

https://www.aldi-suisse.ch/de/unternehmen/medien/medienmitteilungen/aldi-suisse-nimmtmega-solarkraftwerk-in-domdidier-in-betrieb.html

Finally, Volkswagen is launching a V2G tariff in Germany. It is now scheduled for launch in Q4 2026.

Although Volkswagen was the first German car manufacturer to release bidirectional charging functionality in their vehicles, they are now behind BMW, Mercedes and Ford (whose EVs use VW technology) in terms of announcing an actual charger and tariff bundle.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/elli-vw_vehicle-to-grid-offer-activity-7450540124746059776-8pz3

Et tu, Grüne?

Even the German Greens are supporting the fairytale of a 'highly efficient' combustion engine, alongside 'climate-friendly fuels', plug-in hybrids, hydrogen and e-fuels.

With these friends, the European Green Deal doesn't need enemies.

This is from the planned coalition in Baden-Württemberg

https://www.gruene-bw.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Sondierungspapier_GrueneBW_CDUBW.pdf

In some Latin American and Caribbean countries, such as Suriname, it is up to 12 times cheaper to drive an electric vehicle than a petrol car (when looking purely at fuel costs)

https://www.agora-verkehrswende.org/publications/fuel-cost-maps-for-latin-america-and-the-caribbean
#EV