Tank & Rast does not operate its own charging stations, but leases the space to the four providers EnBW, Eon, Ionity and Mer, who set up charging stations at their own expense.
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Dusseldorf Manfred Kuehmichel would like to set up charging stations on the autobahn “just like Tesla” quickly and with his own money. His Taunusblick rest area in Hesse has great potential, after all, around 134,000 cars drive past both sides of the rest area every day. There is no charging option within 70 kilometers.
But the entrepreneur is not allowed to. “I have been slowed down by Tank & Rast for years,” says Kuehmichel. Meetings were canceled, calls went nowhere. “I don’t fit into your system.” Tank & Rast does not want to comment on this, just says that the location “will be taken into account in the course of the further expansion of the charging infrastructure”.
But one thing is clear: If tenants, leaseholders or charging column operators want to set up charging stations, they can hardly get past Tank & Rast. The company holds 90 percent of all concessions for rest stops, petrol stations and hotels on German motorways.
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