Palazuelo’s service area, in the route A-66, has just launched its first charging point for electric vehicles in the section of the highway that joins Leon with Benavente. The installation has been started up by the energy company EDP, after an investment of 50 000€.

With its launching, EDP ensures the backup recharges needed by electric vehicles that drive in the A-66, both for the ones driving north, and for the ones continuing towards the Ruta de la Plata or Madrid. Moreover, it is a fast point – it has a power of 50 kW -, so recharges are fulfilled in barely 20 minutes.

In order to manage the use of this point, users may use the innovative platform “EDP Moveon” – available for Android and iOS -, that has received international acknowledgement because of its easy integration with other platforms of charging infrastructures’ management. It already has 1 700 users.

EDP has more than 150 charging points in public areas in Spain. All of them are managed through this platform, among which features stand out, apart from managing recharges, the offer of information about the type of connection of these points, the distance towards them and their availability in real time.

The company has charging points in Castilla y León, Asturias, Madrid, Cantabria, Basque Country, Valencian Community and Andalusia. All of them are located in strategic areas, like the area of Palazuelo, which eases the use and expansion of the electric vehicle.

This boost of electric mobility is joint by an increasing interest of the users to have access to recharge points in their households, where the main charge of the vehicle takes place. EDP has personalized offers for each customer with an electric vehicle.

The electric vehicle is the only one with 0% emissions, at the same time that its use does not imply noise pollution. Furthermore, its efficiency is three times superior to the one of the combustion engines, and regarding the prize of recharge, the savings are up to 90% in comparison with the one of traditional cars.

Sustainability mobility is one of EDP’s priorities. It is one if the fields that will impact the most the energy sector, and it ill be essential for the decarbonization of transport, representing an increasing percentage of the cars sails in the world.