Auer/Bolzano – As the year draws to a close, Gruber Logistics, together with its partner Alpitronic, has expanded its capacity for charging electric trucks in Germany. The renowned logistics provider and Europe’s leading supplier of fast-charging infrastructure commissioned a so-called hypercharger at Gruber Logistics’ Staufenberg site in 2025. The Cologne branch will follow shortly. With the increasing use of e-trucks – including models with higher payloads and trucks deployed for pre- and post-haulage in intermodal transport – CO₂ emissions in logistics can be significantly reduced.
In the first half of 2025, Gruber Logistics acquired a 612-hp electric truck for its Staufenberg branch near Gießen. For this and other trucks in its steadily growing e-fleet, the company built its own charging infrastructure at the Hessian site in cooperation with Alpitronic. The Cologne branch followed suit: here, too, the Alpitronic Hypercharger HYC 400 was installed, with commissioning scheduled for the turn of the year 2025/26.
“Our fleet electrification is one of the key pillars of our sustainability strategy,” emphasizes Martin Gruber, CEO of Gruber Logistics. “Thanks to our partnership with Alpitronic, we not only gain access to cutting-edge charging technology. We also benefit from seamless integration into intelligent energy management systems via provided interfaces, optimizing power consumption.”
Philipp Senoner, CEO of Alpitronic, adds: “Electrifying logistics will only succeed if charging is seamlessly integrated into daily operations – for example, during loading and unloading of goods or during breaks and rest periods. Our fast-charging devices are designed for this: reliable and scalable technology that makes the transition to zero-emission transport both practical and economically viable.”
Such projects reach a high degree of complexity. Therefore, Manuel Scaramuzza, Executive Director Logistics Services and Solution at Gruber Logistics, draws the following comparison: “Building and deploying an electric truck fleet is not fundamentally different from setting up a new logistics project. That’s why we established a team of employees from various fields, who on the one hand developed strategies for the operational implementation of the project and on the other hand ensured the profitability of these investments.”
The cooperation aims to make road freight transport more sustainable through increased electromobility. The Hypercharger in Cologne, which is about to go live, is planned so that the trucks charged there can also be used in multimodal supply chains for pre- and post-haulage. Fast charging cycles enable flexible day and night operations for various transport tasks, as initial tests have already shown.
Gruber Logistics and Alpitronic, both rooted in South Tyrol, also collaborate beyond the German sites of the transport and logistics group. This includes the “Green Corridor” initiative of the Province of Bolzano for environmentally friendly transport routes. In addition, both companies are involved in the European research project FLEXMCS, which focuses on developing and building megawatt charging stations for e-fleets.
