Madrid Region opens the largest electric charging station in the country

On 11 January, Madrid Region introduced a new charging station for electric vehicles with a capacity for 46 cars, the largest of its kind in all of Spain. The station is located in Pozuelo de Alarcon, a municipality in the western periphery of the Madrid metropolis. Particularly, it was placed at a public land plot in Ciudad de la Imagen, a media business park home to many local TV stations and other audio-visual enterprises.

The station is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is also very simple to use thanks to an e-platform developed by EYSA for access, management and payment. The innovative system provides access by license plate or an app. Users do not need to obtain a ticket and pay manually, the payment is done automatically when they leave the station. Making the re-charging process faster, more accessible and more convenient is the approach that the authorities are choosing to encourage and boost more interest in purchasing and using hybrid and e-cars.

Energy company Endesa X has been in charge of placing the power supply points for the 46 points, 20 of which are parking spaces with ultra-fast chargers (150 kW) and 26 operate on a semi-fast mode (up to 22 kW). The 20 charging points with Ultra-fast technology allow electric vehicle to charge 80% of their battery in just 10 minutes.

The Madrid regional government is already researching other strategically located plots of public land to extend this initiative to the rest of the territory. The intention is that of creating a network of fast and ultra-fast charging points for e-vehicles to encourage and boost the diffusion of electric mobility.