Lidl now sells… electricity. The German hard discounter brand announces, in a press release, the inauguration this Monday of a first station of electric car charging stations in Villefranche-sur-Saône (Rhône), “always at the best price”.
This first station includes 13 parking spaces, all equipped with fast and ultra-fast chargers. One of these terminals is among the fastest in France, says the brand, thus promising motorists to recover 350 km of autonomy in 15 minutes “for certain electric vehicles marketed”.
Soon other stations open
This first station is only the start of a larger project for the company in France. Three others will open in the coming weeks, in Landivisiau (Finistère) and Pennes-Mirabeau (Bouches-du-Rhône) on December 5, and in Tourcoing (North) on December 9. These stations will be “accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and will allow motorists to recharge their car from 0.25 euros”, specifies Lidl.
These stations complement the charging points already installed in the car parks of Lidl stores. According to the brand, there are now nearly 2,300 in more than 500 supermarkets.
According to data from Enedis, there were in France, in the third quarter of 2022, more than 1.1 million electric charging stations. Their installation is in full swing, while the State is pushing to drive in electric, and that new thermal cars will be banned from sale from 2035: a year ago, at the same period, there were only just over 750,000.