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EnBW Consolidates Fast-Charging Operations as New Mobility+ Chief Sets HPC Profit Focus

A new Karlsruhe control room targets higher reliability across roughly 8,000 ultrafast points.

Overview

  • Martin Roemheld, formerly at VW and BP Pulse, will become CEO of EnBW mobility+ on January 1, 2026.
  • He pledges a full focus on High Power Charging and a subsidy‑independent model with customer‑acceptable pricing.
  • EnBW operates about 8,000 ultrafast charging points in Germany, the country’s largest fast‑charging network, with a goal of over 20,000 by 2030.
  • The centralized control room in Karlsruhe unifies data from the network to detect anomalies in real time and accelerate fixes.
  • Initial staffing is up to four people during tariff working hours as 24/7 coverage via partner control rooms is assessed, with EnBW citing mobile‑network and software issues as the most common outage causes and reporting 98% of customers within 50 km of a site.