Cross-European Program • Vienna/Tallinn
A leap toward a supportive environment for sustainable road freight and passenger transport at minimal vulnerability to external damage. Through high-power charging from local renewable energy sources with storage systems for uninterrupted power supply to the transport and local communities it goes through, securing EU grid stability.
About CorridorToZero.EU
The corridor
Two corridors forming a cross over the European sub-continent, intersecting in Austria. North to South. West to East. Together they cover 10+ countries and connect the North Sea, the Baltic, the Black Sea, and the Adriatic - the backbone of seamless, high-power zero-emission road freight infrastructure for electric trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles across Europe.
Corridor route map
The main problem
Extremely low pace of decarbonisation in road freight transportation. Without serious joint efforts from stakeholders, government, and industry, electric truck deployment and heavy-duty vehicle transition will remain too slow to meet Europe’s freight and climate goals on time.
The problems behind
B2B customers are ordering road freight transportation performed by default with combustion-engine trucks, because this remains the main, and in most locations the only, kind of transport supported by available infrastructure.
There is still no commitment to purchase zero-emission transportation services to replace fossil-backed ones, rooted in the absence of widely accessible offers and unclear perspectives on when this will change.
There are no fleets capable of transporting goods across long distances without creating carbon emissions at the required scale, which means businesses still cannot reliably hire decarbonised transport within present European infrastructure.
Transport companies have little motivation to buy or rent zero-emission trucks because demand commitments are weak and charging at the right power, in the right place, at the right time, is still not guaranteed.
There is a lack of 350+ kW and MW chargers for trucks across almost all TEN-T identified roads in Europe, and no sufficiently intensive build-out to catalyse decarbonised freight transport at scale.
There is no intensive building of 350+ kW and MW infrastructure sufficient to catalyse the ability of European decarbonised truck transport to serve customers.
Demand for charging fleets is still too limited to make 350+ kW and MW transport infrastructure emerge organically, because the capacity would sit idle and remain uneconomic for too long without enough existing trucks to use it.
There is no scale of platforms dedicated to resolving the coordination, measurement, and operational gaps of zero-emission freight connectivity.
Cars had some success with organic decarbonisation because people purchased electric vehicles and home chargers together. Truck decarbonisation will not spread with the same organic success because the economics, infrastructure needs, and operational constraints are fundamentally different.
Governments need to evolve their awareness and structuring of the heavy mobility problem and policies.
Goals
Our approach
The approach to how we build the corridor is different. Europe is so diverse that along the way there are hundreds of interests and opinions, hundreds of stakeholders, hundreds of community needs, hundreds of talents with invaluable local knowledge, and hundreds of businesses that can become part of making the change.
Empowering stakeholders means leveraging what is already in place and making things work with the highest possible precision to local conditions and demand. The efficiency and the strength of outcomes should be backed by diversity, not hindered by it, even when the corridor itself is one long unified system by its technical nature.
Seeing the similar tops of the trees from a train window, we usually do not keep in mind how different they are underground in their local conditions. The same is true when aiming for the similar result in different locations: the roots differ.
How do we do that?
Join the initiative
If you are shaping electric truck deployment, fleet decarbonisation, charging infrastructure, finance, or EU freight policy, send a short message to the organising team to join as a partner, stakeholder, or contributor.
Insights
Updates, commentary, and practical insights on zero-emission freight corridors, charging infrastructure, fleet transition, and policy alignment.
July 18, 2026
Road freight will not decarbonise organically – unlike passenger cars. It requires coordinated action across industries, governments, and investors simultaneously, along all the thousands of kilometers of the…
May 14, 2026
Why Europe's road freight transition still stalls: shippers, fleet operators, charging networks, and investors are all waiting for someone else to move first.
Team
A small core team coordinating stakeholder alignment, collaboration on routing and deployment across the initiative
Coordinator
Austria
Architect with extensive experience in spatial and urban planning projects. Completed the DGNB-/ ÖGNI- Consultant course, confirming his expertise in sustainable development.
Coordinator
Austria
International economic relations and cross-border collaboration. Sustainability impact.
Coordinator
Ukraine
Sustainable development and environmental economics. Policy, education and implementation pathways.
Coordinator
Hungary
Communications, media and events.
Coordinator
Ukraine
Transport infrastructure research, economy and planning. Collaboration non-EU and Ukraine routes.
Organiser
Technical organisation by GNerdiX OÜ, Estonia.
Register No: 12933228
VAT No: EE101910280
Address: Narva mnt 5, Kesklinn district, Tallinn, Harju county, 10117, Estonia
Website: https://gnerdix.com/
