follow-up to gentbrugge

Fastned to build first-ever all-electric service station in France: ‘Designed for people’

Het Nederlandse snellaadbedrijf Fastned heeft de aanbesteding gewonnen voor de bouw en exploitatie van de allereerste volledig elektrische verzorgingsplaats van Frankrijk.
Als vervolg op de locatie in het Belgische Gentbrugge, krijgt nu het Franse St Yvi de allereerste volledig elektrische verzorgingsplaats van Fastned. Foto: Fastned, 2025

Dutch fast-charging company Fastned has won the tender to build and operate France’s very first all-electric service station. This will give the Fastned in Gentbrugge, which opened in September, a follow-up in France. The charging location will be in St Yvi on Route Nationale 165 and, together with the fast-charging station, will also have a staffed shop with catering facilities, toilet facilities and a landscaped garden. After Gentbrugge, St Yvi will become the

The latest Fastned location in St Yvi, Brittany, France, is due to offer six 400 kW fast chargers. Of these, one fast charger is suitable for electric trucks. According to Fastned, the realisation of the charging location makes France the second country, after Belgium, to embrace the fast-charging company’s vision of ‘the service area of the future’. The charging location in St Yvi will therefore be emphatically completely emission-free and is designed for people and not just cars, according to Fastned. All facilities at the stop will be sustainably powered, including catering facilities. The opening is scheduled for 2026.

Logical development

“I am enormously proud that Fastned has been chosen to build France’s first all-electric service station in St Yvi,” says Fastned’s ceo Michiel Langezaal. “France will now become the second country to take the step towards emission-free service stations: a logical development in light of the phasing out of the internal combustion engine and fossil fuels, and thus petrol stations.”

Ambition

“Since 2021, Fastned has been providing electric drivers throughout France with power and accelerating the transition with now more than 50 stations already open in the country. This won tender underlines our ambition to bring the service station of the future to France and further across Europe, and to offer every driver the best possible charging experience with 100 per cent renewable energy.”

Fastned’s vision of ‘the service station of the future’ was first presented in September 2025 at the opening of the company’s flagship sites in Gentbrugge, Belgium. The fast-charging company currently operates more than 380 charging stations in Europe, including more than 50 in France.

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This article was automatically translated from the Dutch language original to English (British).

Author: Paul Blonk

Source: MobilityEnergy.com

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