OMV Petrom and Renovatio will install at least 40 fast and ultra-fast recharging stations in OMV and Petrom filling facilities in Romania by the end of 2022.
OMV Petrom is the largest energy company in South East Europe, while Renovatio is the operator of the most significant network of recharging stations for EVs in Romania.
Electric mobility represents a long term project and meets an increasingly diverse demand for the road transportation, said OMV Petrom executive board member, responsible for Downstream Oil, Radu Caprau. Lately, we see more and more Romanians are opting for electric and hybrid vehicles. Even if, in Romania, the number of these vehicles is currently low, the prospects are for electric mobility to become a mainstream option, especially over short distances. And we are preparing to provide in the coming years the necessary infrastructure for various mobility options.
“Trains were born in Europe,” opens a recent report on European energy policy from the Jacques Delors Institute in Paris. So also, in some senses, were the Green movement and increased awareness of personal mobility options and potential. For the continent and the European Union community to maintain their world leadership in these two areas, the rail sector must play a greater role than it does presently, argues report author Matthias Ruete. He sees Galileo and EGNOS, the two European GNSS, as essential to this strategy.
“This European Year of the Railways should be an opportunity to make rail transport the major player in clean European mobility, even though its overall share of the various modes of transport has become relatively low,” states the report, Challenges for European Rail: Getting Solutions on Track.
The Connecting Europe Express, an initiative that is part of the European Year of Rail 2021, will pass through Bulgaria from September 15 to 17, state railways BDZ said.
The initiative’s website said that the train, criss-crossing 26 countries, “will trace many of the routes that bind us together, connecting countries, businesses and people. It will showcase the unifying force of rail”.
“Its role is to make us better understand the challenges that European rail has to overcome in order to become the mode of choice for passengers and businesses alike,” the website said.
Railway companies from various EU member states are providing rolling stock to configure the train, which on its 20 000km journey will pass through 26 countries, including Bulgaria, on three different gauges of rail.
EU defence ministers on Thursday (6 May) agreed to allow the United States, Norway and Canada to join the bloc’s project on military mobility, seen as the ‘silver bullet’ for EU-NATO defence cooperation and designed to ensure seamless movement of military equipment across the EU in response to crises.
“Their expertise will contribute to the project and, with it, to improving military mobility within and beyond the EU,” the bloc’s foreign policy chief and meeting chairman, Josep Borrell, said following the agreement.
“It will make EU defence more efficient and contribute to strengthening our security,” he added.
It’s the first time that the EU will allow outside countries to join its so-called Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) framework of 46 military projects and is a sign of improving EU-NATO cooperation.