Patrick Pouyanne: Total Planning EV Charging Points At Its French Stations

French oil and gas giant Total is planning to set up a network of charging points for the electric vehicles at its petrol stations across France, said the company’s CEO, Patrick Pouyanne on Tuesday.

“We are preparing to do it. We are thinking on how to equip our stations with electric charging points.” Pouyanne told journalists at the side-lines of the SER renewable energy conference in Paris.

Pouyanne said that the company was looking to install the charging points mostly outside city centers and was in talks with electric car makers such as PSA.

“Our plan consists of looking at how to create a charging point network throughout the French highways, so as to have a charging point every 150 or 160 km (100 miles),” adding to that he said, “there is demand from clients”.
“We are preparing the investment for it,” Pouyanne said. He added that “Total is targeting about 300 petrol stations.”