Shell has opened the 500th location in the German “Shell Recharge” network in Rheda-Wiedenbrück (North Rhine-Westphalia). The new charging hub features twelve fast-charging points, four of which are also suitable for trucks and motorhomes up to twelve meters in length. According to the company, it is the largest Shell Recharge fast-charging park in Germany.
The site is located in Rheda-Wiedenbrück next to the Shell service station on Bielefelder Straße and thus directly at the A2 exit Rheda-Wiedenbrück as well as on the B61.
“We are expanding our nationwide fast-charging network in Germany,” said Florian Glattes, head of the gas station business in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. “Our goal
is to make charging as simple and reliable as possible – exactly where people are already on the move.”
Shell concentrates its public charging offering on convenient locations, primarily at Shell service stations, but also partly at supermarkets such as Rewe and Penny, at KFC or the operator of shopping centers, Redevco. The aim
is to integrate charging of electric vehicles into everyday life. Thus the Rheda-Wiedenbrück service station offers, for example, an attractive Shell Shop with cafe, car wash, station-owned toilets and an Amazon locker station.
The strategic orientation at Shell lies in public charging because drivers’ charging behavior is increasingly shifting from private space to public
