Efacec, the Porto-area power-engineering group that is the only supplier of battery-train charging stations in Denmark, on 22 September launched its most powerful electric-vehicle charging product to date: a modular Charging Hub rated at up to 1.6 MW, aimed at fleet depots, heavy-duty trucks, high-traffic motorway sites and destination charging. The company says the platform ranks among the highest-power distributed charging systems on the market and was developed entirely in-house, combining its charger technology with its own medium-voltage switchgear, automation, grid-integration and software businesses. Portuguese trade agency AICEP and the business daily ECO, which reported the hub is built at Efacec’s Matosinhos site, carried the launch the following day.
The architecture is built around 800 kW Modular Power Units that can be added in 40 kW increments, feeding up to 16 DC charging outputs from a single hub through single- or dual-connector dispenser kiosks. Four kiosk ratings are offered — 2×250 A, 2×375 A, 2×500 A and a single 700 A output — with a certified “Active Boost” mode as standard to push higher currents when the vehicle allows. The platform is designed to support the Megawatt Charging System (MCS) at 1,000 V, the connector standard being adopted for electric long-haul trucks, and can be delivered as a complete medium-voltage-to-DC installation, with Efacec supplying the transformer, switchgear and grid connection engineering up to 1.6 MW alongside the chargers. It ships with the company’s EVCore software suite — charge-point management, load management and a new asset-management platform. The development was co-financed by Portugal’s Recovery and Resilience Plan through the Alliance for the Energy Transition mobilising agenda.
The Danish reference
Efacec’s Nordic track record is in rail rather than road, but it is the same engineering problem: putting megawatt-class DC power into a vehicle in minutes. In 2023 the regional operator Midtjyske Jernbaner awarded Efacec Denmark’s first battery-train charging station, a 4.4 MW installation at Lemvig serving the Vemb–Lemvig–Thyborøn line, where Denmark’s first battery train entered service at the end of 2025. National infrastructure manager Banedanmark then selected a consortium of Danish installer Bravida and Efacec for two further stations, rated 2.2 MW each, that let battery trains run the roughly 67 km Lemvig–Skjern–Holstebro services without continuous overhead wires, topping up in under ten minutes at the line ends. The consortium contract was worth about €8 million, with Efacec’s share roughly half; the stations went live early in 2026, as NorthSouth HQ reported in June. The Charging Hub’s selling points — turnkey medium-voltage-to-DC delivery, high availability, one supplier from grid to vehicle — are the ones Banedanmark bought. The Danish market is not a walkover, though: on 7 August the regional operator Lokaltog A/S awarded an €18.4 million charging-infrastructure package at Hårlev station to a Siemens–Aarsleff consortium, with Efacec Engenharia e Sistemas one of the three bidders, as NorthSouth HQ’s review of TED award data recorded earlier this month.
Where the Nordic road market is
The product is pitched at the segment the Nordics are building fastest. Under the EU’s Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation, member states must roll out heavy-duty charging pools along the core TEN-T network in stages from 2025 to 2030, and Sweden, Denmark and Finland — with Norway alongside through its own programmes — are among the first markets where Volvo and Scania, the region’s own truck makers, are selling battery-electric trucks in volume. Efacec has not announced a Nordic road-charging customer for the hub; its route into the region so far has run through rail operators and through the Danish electromechanical contractor it partnered with, and the company’s press material describes an installed base built over more than 15 years in electric mobility. What it has is a reference in a demanding Nordic public buyer and a product that competes in the same 1–2 MW depot class as the Finnish and Swedish charger makers that dominate the region.
An owner looking at the exit
The launch lands while the group’s ownership is in play. Munich-listed turnaround investor Mutares completed the purchase of Efacec from the Portuguese state in November 2023, after a nationalisation forced by the Isabel dos Santos affair. On 17 June this year Bloomberg reported that Mutares was working with advisers including JPMorgan on options for Efacec that could include a sale or an initial public offering in Lisbon, and that the business had drawn preliminary interest from potential buyers. A product that opens the truck-depot market, with a Nordic public-sector reference, is the kind of asset a seller wants in the book.
The Swedish ledger for Efacec’s category
Portuguese electrical equipment is already one of the corridor’s strongest lines. Statistics Sweden’s July tables, released today and analysed by NorthSouth HQ, shows Swedish imports from Portugal of electrical transformers, static converters and inductors (CN 8504) — the category into which chargers and their power electronics are classified — at SEK 502 million for January–July 2026, up 33% from SEK 377 million, and of switchboards and control panels (CN 8537) at SEK 107 million against SEK 23 million a year earlier. The wider electrical chapter is Sweden’s largest import from Portugal at SEK 1,460 million, up 3.0%. Efacec’s transformer and switchgear businesses sit in exactly those codes; the Charging Hub, sold as an integrated medium-voltage package, would too.
Why this matters for the corridor
Efacec is one of a handful of Portuguese industrial groups selling engineered systems, rather than components or labour, into Nordic critical infrastructure, and the Danish rail stations are its proof. The Charging Hub moves the same capability into a market — heavy-duty and fleet charging — where the Nordic countries are early adopters and where public procurement, through municipal bus depots, port and logistics operators and state road agencies, is a large share of demand. For Portuguese suppliers that is the path that works: a certified, high-power, turnkey product and a local installation partner. Whether the hub reaches a Nordic depot before Mutares reaches a buyer is the question for 2027.
Sources: Efacec press release, 22 September 2026; AICEP/Portugal Global, 23 September 2026; ECO, 22 September 2026; Banedanmark and Efacec announcements on the Lemvig–Skjern–Holstebro charging stations (2025–2026); Mutares announcements (November 2023); Bloomberg, 17 June 2026; Statistics Sweden, ImpTotalKNMan, data to July 2026, extracted 28 September 2026.