Finnish DC fast-charging solutions manufacturer Kempower has reached a milestone of 3000 installed fast charging points in Norway, making it the market-leading DC fast charging solutions provider in Norway, the most electrified country in the world. The number includes charging points installed for private cars and commercial vehicles, making Kempower the most-used DC fast charging system manufacturer in Norway. In 2024, 88,9 percent of new cars sold in Norway were EVs and the national goal is that all new cars sold in 2025 should be zero-emission.

With the growing number of EVs and a country known for its demanding weather and road conditions, a well-functioning public charging network across the length of the country has been critical. In total, Norway had 9478 fast charging points by the end of 2024. Kempower’s fast chargers are used by many charge point operators, such as, Recharge, Kople, Mer, and St1. Kempower had its first commercial installation in Norway with the opening of Recharge’s Bolleland station in Espa in July 2020. The different charging station design attracted interest from the EV drivers’ community from the very start. The unique design of the Kempower Satellites and the intuitive user-interface stood out, at the time, from the more common standalone chargers.

The same month, internationally renowned EV-specialized Youtuber Bjørn Nyland visited the Espa station and posted a video with the headline “The coolest charger ever”, creating further spur on Kempower’s market introduction in Norway. Since the first public charging station opened in July 2020, many charging stations have been opened by Kempower’s customers and partners, building up the charging network, not only for personal vehicles, but also for electric boats, buses and trucks.

Norway has been a benchmark country of being the first to install Kempower products in many ways. With the distributed design, Kempower’s customers and partners have been able to distribute power across vehicles and even between different applications. Kempower’s customer Plug is for instance providing charging for electric boats on piers, while also offering electricity for cars at harbor parking areas.

Tide Bus has again the most northern bus depot with Kempower chargers, operated by Wennstrom, in Hammerfest, Finnmark, not far from the North Cape, marking the northernmost point of continental Europe. Last year, partnering with Wennstrom, Fastcharge opened the three first public charging stations in Norway, exclusively for heavy-duty trucks, using Kempower Liquid Cooled Satellites, and compatible with Kempower’s Megawatt Charging System (MCS).

The distributed charging system enables combining different Kempower chargers to the same system, which can be critical in space-constrained areas, such as truck depots. The possibility to place wall-mounted Kempower Control Units in overhead installations, while setting up Kempower Satellites in a different charging area, up to 80 meters away, gives flexibility to operate truck depots, for instance.

“I’m extremely happy for this milestone, and I want to thank our customers and partners, for choosing to work with us, and the broader EV community in Norway. From the very beginning, we put ourselves in the EV drivers’ shoes and wanted to understand what is important. In the end, what benefits everyone is that the maximum amount of energy can be delivered through the whole charging system, without capping power to single outputs.

This way, the EV driver can power up their car as quickly as possible, and our customers get the most out of their investments,” said Erik Kanerva, Director of Sales, North Europe, at Kempower.