Smart Freight Centre and PragmaCharge launch Electrification Program for Europe’s busiest road freight corridor, between Poland and Germany
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Smart Freight Centre and PragmaCharge are launching the Poland-Germany Zero Emission Road Freight Corridor program, the largest road transport CO2 and GHG emissions reduction initiative in Europe.
Heavy-duty truck freight accounts for more than 1 billion kilometers annually on the A2 and A4 highways from Warsaw and Kraków in Poland to Berlin in Germany.
Poland has one of the oldest truck fleets in Europe, with over 37% of road tractors greater than 10 years old, presenting a significant opportunity to adopt electric trucks and make a major impact in reducing GHG emissions.
A consortium, led by Smart Freight Centre, includes some of the world’s largest shipping and logistics companies and their major carriers to join forces to decarbonize Europe’s busiest trucking corridor.
PragmaCharge, a leading pan-European electric trucking-as-a-service provider, is to deliver comprehensive Fleet Electrification and Charging Services.
Amsterdam, the Netherlands and London, United Kingdom, 16th June 2025 –
Smart Freight Centre (SFC) is an international non-profit organization focused on reducing the emission impacts of global freight transportation. The SFC Community unites members and partners committed to driving change. SFC’s vision and mission is to enable zero-emissions logistics by 2050 or earlier, by mobilizing the global logistics ecosystem.
SFC launched a major initiative last year in the US, the I-10 Zero Emission Freight Corridor, electrifying the Los Angeles to El Paso corridor. SFC is now launching a similar initiative in Europe in partnership with PragmaCharge, the Poland-Germany Zero Emission Freight Corridor. This partnership is a unique opportunity to showcase a model for sustainable and cost-effective electrification of freight corridors.
PragmaCharge shall provide comprehensive end-to-end solutions to help heavy-duty truck fleet owners decarbonise their fleet. Its electric-Trucking-as-a-Service (eTaaS) and Charging-as-a-Service (CaaS) solutions include Fleet Electrification Planning software and analytics, comprehensive Charging Services through access to its charging hubs around ports, rail terminals, major freight corridors and logistics depots, fleet management cloud services, and electric truck leasing.
SFC and PragmaCharge have developed a high-level Electrification Plan for the corridor based on the 250 million annual kilometers of trucking data received from participating shippers and carriers, which has the potential of reducing CO2e emissions by ~200k tons/year. The resulting Fleet Electrification Plan was presented during Smart Freight Week in Amsterdam in March 2025.
SFC and PragmaCharge will jointly develop and deliver a scalable solution that would be TCO-positive compared to new diesel trucks along the corridor. Major benefits for participating Shipping / Logistics Service Providers and Carriers include:
Fleet Electrification Plan Development: PragmaCharge Software to ingest and analyze the historical duty-cycle data to present a comprehensive electrification plan including total cost of ownership (TCO).
Shared charging infrastructure will lower the upfront and operational costs for carriers. Joint application, as a consortium, for the subsidies announced by the government in Poland will make the financial case even more compelling.
Improved Charging Accessibility: Strategic placement of chargers will ensure carriers have convenient and reliable access to high-powered charging stations along the corridor, minimizing charging time.
Decarbonization & Compliance: PragmaCharge Fleet Management Software and Cloud Services to provide GLEC-compliant GHG emissions reporting to support carriers to meet EU emissions reporting required under EU ETS-2 (from 2027) and help align with broader sustainability goals of their respective companies and their customers.
Scalability & Future Expansion: The model can be replicated and expanded to other key road freight corridors across Europe.
Christoph Wolff, CEO of Smart Freight Centre, said: “PragmaCharge’s software and analytics using the data provided by our Shipping Logistics partners made a great contribution for a compelling case for Fleet Electrification Plan for the Corridor. Electrification can be cost effective and scalable.
We invite our valued shippers and carrier partners to join this consortium. We look forward to working with you and the PragmaCharge team in developing Europe's largest road freight decarbonisation program.”
Anil Srivastava, CEO of PragmaCharge, said: “We are truly excited about the partnership with Smart Freight Centre who have built a strong consortium of the world’s leading shipping and logistics service providers and carriers operating on and in the vicinity of A2 and A4 corridor.
We are targeting the electrification of more than 6 thousand trucks operating per day between the cities of Poznan, Wroclaw, Warsaw and Krakow, and the road network that links these cities with Germany, including the North Sea-Baltic and Baltic Sea-Adriatic Sea TEN-T corridor network.
Our simplified Charging-as-Service (CaaS1) on €-per-kWh or our integrated Electric Trucking -as-a-Service (eTaaS2) on €-per-Km will deliver TCO-positive solutions to the Carriers to help them accelerate electrification”
1* CaaS: Charging-as-a-Service. PragmaCharge’s offering that includes, analysis, charging infrastructure, electricity for truck recharge, and software on a €-per-kWh basis.
2* eTaaS: electric-Trucking-as-a-Service. PragmaCharge’s offering that includes, analysis, truck leasing, truck repair and maintenance (R&M), charging infrastructure, electricity for truck recharge, and software on a €-per-km basis.
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About PragmaCharge
PragmaCharge is on a mission to decarbonise heavy-duty road freight in Europe, by providing fleet owners of all sizes with a highly reliable, simple to use and digitally connected eco-system of battery electric trucks and charging infrastructure. We aim to make a tangible impact on European transportation GHG emissions that derive from heavy-duty road freight. PragmaCharge is an early mover working with key stakeholder groups - including logistics asset operators, freight and trucking companies, high-power charging technology providers, electricity market participants, vehicle OEMs, sea port and rail freight terminal operators - to develop turnkey solutions for the transition to heavy-duty electric trucks. PragmaCharge offers partners and customers comprehensive solutions, including fleet electrification analysis, electric truck leasing, charging infrastructure and services, as well as ongoing software and operational support.
About Smart Freight Centre
Smart Freight Centre (SFC) is a globally active non-profit organization for climate action in the freight sector. Our goal is to mobilize the global logistics ecosystem, in particular our members and partners, in tracking and reducing its greenhouse gas emissions. We accelerate the reduction of logistics emissions to achieve a zero-emission global logistics sector by 2050 or earlier, consistent with 1.5° pathways.
Contacts
Media contacts:
PragmaCharge - Nikhil Amin
Email: namin@pragmacharge.com Phone: +44 7824 555 363
Smart Freight Centre – Francesco Scognamiglio
Smart Freight Centre – Samuel Barendregt