ABB E-Mobility to Run ASKO's Electric Truck Charging Network

Norwegian food wholesaler and logistics operator ASKO has handed over the day-to-day running of its heavy-duty electric truck charging network to ABB E-Mobility under a new service contract. The deal moves the two companies beyond hardware supply and into ongoing operations, with ABB E-Mobility now responsible for monitoring, maintenance and support across ASKO’s installed charging systems.

The two partners have worked together since 2019. Their shared network now spans more than 60 high-power chargers in seven Norwegian cities, and ABB E-Mobility says those units have dispensed over 20 GWh of energy so far, with 5.5 GWh of that delivered in the last twelve months alone. The most recent hardware addition was ABB E-Mobility’s A400 fast charger, a 400 kW unit installed at one of ASKO’s logistics sites.

ASKO has been building out charging capacity quickly, and not only with ABB E-Mobility. At its Vestby depot the company runs a 2.4 MW facility combining two MCS and four CCS points, with the MCS connections alone capable of up to 1.2 MW. Kempower has installed roughly 190 CCS points and two MCS points across 13 ASKO depots in Norway, adding around 25 MW of capacity in total.

That scale explains why the service agreement matters. ASKO operates some 700 trucks and supplies more than 1,800 food stores nationwide, and it expects roughly 200 of its trucks to be electric by the end of 2025. In the greater Oslo area, the company says it has already been delivering to food retail customers with electric vehicles since 2025. As the fleet electrifies, keeping chargers available becomes a mission-critical part of daily logistics — which is now ABB E-Mobility’s responsibility.