70 projects are receiving over €600 million in EU grants to electrify and decarbonise road, maritime, inland waterway and air transport along the trans-European transport network (TEN-T). These projects will deploy alternative fuels supply infrastructure such as electric recharging stations, hydrogen refuelling stations, electricity supply and ammonia and methanol bunkering facilities across 24 EU countries.
Europe’s transport network will be electrified through the installation of more than 1 000 electric recharging points for light-duty vehicles with a capacity of 150 kW. 2 000 new recharging points for heavy-duty vehicles will deliver a capacity of 350kW and 586 recharging points with a 1 MW power output. Additionally, 16 European airports will electrify their ground handling services, making a key contribution towards reducing aviation emissions.
The hydrogen economy will also be boosted through the installation of 38 hydrogen refuelling stations for cars, trucks and buses. Finally, 24 maritime ports will benefit from the integration of greener technologies, including Onshore Power Supply (OPS), electrification of port services and ammonia bunkering facilities to fuel maritime vessels.
Commissioner for Sustainable Transport and Tourism Apostolos Tzitzikostas said:
We are currently supporting 70 projects with €600 million in EU funding to accelerate the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure across Europe. These investments will strengthen our competitiveness and help make the transition to zero-emission mobility easier and more accessible for all citizens.
Paloma Aba Garrote, Director of the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency added:
This significant EU support for public and private organisations will accelerate the transport sector’s transition toward a sustainable future. With these new projects, more than €2.5 billion in EU grants has been allocated to alternative fuels projects through AFIF since 2021. This demonstrates EU’s ambition to make zero-emission mobility an everyday reality.
Next steps
Following the approval of the 70 selected projects by the EU Member States on 13 November 2025, the European Commission will adopt the award decision. The European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) is starting the preparation of the grant agreements with the successful projects.
Due to the exhaustion of funds, the third cut-off will be cancelled. The Commission will now assess the potential reflows and subsequently prepare a new work programme and call for proposals in the coming months.
Background
The projects have been selected under the second cut-off of the 2024-2025 AFIF call which closed on 11 June 2025. The total awarded grant for these projects is €600 million: €505 million under the General envelope and €95 million under the Cohesion envelope.
A total budget of €1 billion was available under this Call: €780 million under the General envelope and €220 million under the Cohesion envelope. This call supports the objectives for publicly accessible electric recharging pools and hydrogen refuelling stations across the EU’s main transport corridors and hubs as set out in the Regulation for the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure (AFIR), in the ReFuelEU aviation regulation and in the FuelEU maritime regulation.
AFIF also aims to improve alternative fuels infrastructure in ports by investing strongly in OPS. This facilitates the transition to renewable and low-carbon fuels by ships, which is also a main priority outlined in the Sustainable Transport Investment Plan. Regarding heavy-duty vehicle charging infrastructure, the Automotive Action Plan encourages the adoption of zero-emission vehicles by speeding up the deployment of necessary infrastructure.
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Train wifi in the UK, long a source of frustration for passengers, is about to get radically faster – for a lucky few at least.
A two-month trial has begun on one Great Western Railway (GWR) train, fitted with technology from Formula One that switches between the signals from 5G masts to low Earth-orbit satellites to provide almost seamless, superfast wifi.
For now, only one of GWR’s 57 intercity express trains will have a connection good enough to deliver a Netflix series to the seat. However, a successful trial and the promise of lower costs could spell a wider rollout to the rest of the mainline railway by 2030.
On a test run from London Paddington to Newbury and back, the Guardian found the wifi fast and reliable enough to video call editors at the office, catch up on old Match of the Days on iPlayer and listen to songs on YouTube at the same time, with only occasional blips and pixelation.
Download speeds reached more than 120 megabytes a second, faster than many homes.
Speaking at Paddington at the launch of the trial, the rail minister, Peter Hendy, said: “Passenger experience is top of our agenda – and 21st-century experience ought to be seamless fast wifi … which will make the time spent travelling by train even more valuable.”
He said the trial would complement government investment in improving mobile connectivity, with another £41m set aside for train wifi and low-orbit satellite connections, announced in June’s spending review. The Department for Transport is funding work to eliminate mobile signal black spots in rail tunnels and upgrading 5G infrastructure at stations on GWR routes.
Lord Hendy said the new state-owned Great British Railways would aspire to fast wifi across the entire railway, but added: “The real question is how quickly and how cheaply it can be rolled out.”
Hendy said it could be “a real productivity benefit for the whole country, hopefully at a modest cost”.
He said the department would be awaiting the results of the trial, but its advocates claim the new system could be installed relatively quickly and cheaply without requiring extra infrastructure on the railway. The previous government was considering scrapping free wifi on trains because of the unreliability and cost.
Nick Fry, the chair of Motion Applied, a tech company spun out of the McLaren racing division, said the pilot would demonstrate the technology was ready. The UK-made tech, pioneered in F1, combines “several pizza-sized boxes” and antennae attached to the roof of the train, allowing it to connect and switch between the best available network, from wifi to 5G to satellite, he said. “It’s very fast with fewer dropouts.”
The system is also being rolled out on Deutsche Bahn services in Germany and on Brightline and Amtrak trains in the US.
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“We look forward to providing rail passengers with the same service we provide for Lando Norris and Lewis Hamilton,” Fry added.
Part of the trial will be to track passenger behaviour to see how much satellite data would be required if free, fast wifi was available for streaming.
The £300k cost is being funded by Peninsula Transport, a body combining Devon, Cornwall, Plymouth, Somerset and Torbay, with better connectivity seen as a critical investment for parts of England where mobile coverage is patchy.
Businesses have welcomed the trial. Andy Jasper, the chief executive of the Eden Project in Cornwall, said GWR trains were his “travelling office, and a bloodstream between Cornwall and London – new wifi is going to be the oxygen that keeps everything pumping”.
Jasper said he was used to having to time conversations onboard for when he knew the wifi would work, such as a quick 10-minute Teams meeting in Plymouth. “Reliable wifi puts your mind at ease – it turns the journey into a prime opportunity to get things done.”
