Finnish DC fast-charging solutions manufacturer Kempower has reached a milestone of 3,000 installed fast charging points in Norway.
The move makes it one of the market-leading DC fast charging solutions providers in Norway. The number includes charging points installed for private cars and commercial vehicles.
In 2024, 88.9% of new cars sold in Norway were EVs and the national goal is that all new cars sold in 2025 should be zero-emission. In total, Norway had 9478 fast charging points by the end of 2024.
Since the first public charging station opened in July 2020, many charging stations have been opened by Kempower’s customers and partners, building up the charging network, not only for personal vehicles, but also for electric boats, buses and trucks. With the distributed design, Kempower’s customers and partners have been able to distribute power across vehicles and even between different applications.
Kempower’s customer Plug also provides charging for electric boats on piers, while also offering electricity for cars at harbour parking areas. Tide Bus has the most northern bus depot with Kempower chargers, operated by Wennstrom, in Hammerfest, Finnmark.
Last year, partnering with Wennstrom, Fastcharge opened the three first public charging stations in Norway, exclusively for heavy-duty trucks, using Kempower Liquid Cooled Satellites, and compatible with Kempower’s Megawatt Charging System (MCS).
The distributed charging system enables combining different Kempower chargers to the same system, which can be critical in space-constrained areas, such as truck depots. The possibility to place wall-mounted Kempower Control Units in overhead installations, while setting up Kempower Satellites in a different charging area, up to 80 meters away, gives flexibility to operate truck depots, for instance.
Erik Kanerva, Director of Sales, North Europe at Kempower, said:
“I’m extremely happy for this milestone, and I want to thank our customers and partners, for choosing to work with us, and the broader EV community in Norway. From the very beginning, we put ourselves in the EV drivers’ shoes and wanted to understand what is important.
“In the end, what benefits everyone is that the maximum amount of energy can be delivered through the whole charging system, without capping power to single outputs. This way, the EV driver can power up their car as quickly as possible, and our customers get the most out of their investments.”
Image courtesy of Kempower
