Contipark plans over 4,000 charging points for electric vehicles

The parking operator Contipark and the energy company E.ON will jointly create more than 4,000 charging points in Contipark’s parking facilities in the coming years in a first phase. Contipark and E.ON’s subsidiary E.ON Drive, which specialises in e-mobility solutions, have now signed a cooperation agreement for this purpose.

The agreement provides for the installation of 1,500 charging points in each of Contipark’s car parks and underground garages in Germany and Austria in 2023, 2024 and 2025. As a full-service partner, E.ON Drive will take care of everything from the pre-check and installation to the operation of the wallboxes and the billing of charging customers. With its parking facilities, Contipark provides highly frequented mobility hubs and will also offer its customers the option of joint billing for parking and charging at a later date.

AC charging stations with the Type 2 plug connection commonly used in Europe will be deployed. Customers can authorise the charging process at the wallboxes using RFID technology or an app. The customers of the Contipark charging stations can choose from a variety of suppliers of traction current. For each charged kilowatt hour, they pay the price they set when concluding the contract with the respective traction current provider. Customers can pay via app or charging card. From summer 2023, payment by credit card terminal will also be possible.

With their cooperation, both companies want to make an active contribution to the development of the urgently needed public charging infrastructure. Their central city location and their function as mobility hubs make Contipark parking facilities the ideal location for charging options for electric vehicles. An average of 30 charging points will be installed per facility. The signing of the contract also serves as the starting signal for the roll-out. The first charging point is expected to go into operation in February.

“As the market leader in the parking industry, it is our ambition to actively shape the mobility of tomorrow. Electromobility will be an important building block in this. That’s why, together with E.ON Drive, we want to bring electromobility onto the road – or rather: into the car park – and offer our customers the service of ‘e-parking’ in the future. We are pleased that we have a highly professional, experienced and reliable partner at our side for this in E.ON Drive,” says Michael Kesseler, Managing Director of the Contipark group of companies.

“E-mobilists need an intelligent mix of different charging options and charging in the car park is an important part of this. Contipark is taking a determined lead here and we are delighted to be installing and operating more than 4,000 E.ON Drive charging points. Charging while shopping or doing other errands makes electric driving easy and efficient, and in this way we are jointly driving the transformation of mobility,” emphasises Christoph Ebert, Managing Director at E.ON Drive Germany.