What Is Coming to Romania's A7 Moldova Motorway for EV Charging?
PPC blue and OSCAR Downstream signed a deal for fast EV charging at the Milcovul service areas on Romania's A7 Buzău–Focșani motorway: car chargers already installed and high-power units for electric trucks and coaches.
Romania's A7 "Moldova motorway" is getting its first serious EV charging stop, and it is designed with heavy transport in mind from day one. PPC blue Romania, the e-mobility arm of Greek utility group PPC, has signed a contract with fuel retailer OSCAR Downstream for 30 charging points at the two Milcovul service areas in Vrancea county, on the Buzău–Focșani stretch. The deal was announced in a press release on October 30, 2026.
What is planned at Milcovul
The service areas sit at kilometre 131 of the motorway, one on each carriageway. The project has two separate parts:
- 16 points for passenger cars, each rated at 150 kW or more. Notably, these units have already been installed by the motorway's construction contractor. PPC blue will take over their operation once the service-area concession contract takes effect.
- 14 points for electric trucks and coaches, each rated at 350 kW or more, which PPC blue still has to install. The layout lets at least seven heavy vehicles charge at the same time in each of the two service areas.
Who does what
Romania's national road infrastructure company, CNAIR, has granted OSCAR Downstream a 30-year concession on the service areas. OSCAR, a Romanian-owned fuel distributor that belongs to Alfa Group, will run the sites and build EV charging into them.
PPC blue covers everything electrical: it funds the chargers, designs the installation, handles the grid connection, and installs and maintains the equipment for the full length of the concession. The size of the investment was not disclosed.
PPC blue Romania's managing director, Andreea-Dana Popescu, framed the project around motorway behaviour: stops are short, so charging power matters most, and infrastructure for electric trucks has to be in place before fleets need it. OSCAR's CEO, Nicolae Bănică, described the partnership as a logical step for service areas built around the needs of the people who stop there.
How big the PPC blue network already is
According to the company, PPC blue already runs more than 1,400 charging points across every Romanian county, with over 46 MW of total installed power. So far the network has grown mainly in retail car parks, supermarkets, hotels and restaurants. Milcovul marks the operator's move onto the motorway network and into heavy-vehicle charging, a segment where Romania has almost no dedicated infrastructure yet.
What the announcement does not say
Neither company has given an opening date. The car chargers depend on the concession contract coming into force, and the truck chargers have not been installed yet. There is also no word on per-kWh pricing or on whether the units will take contactless card payments at the terminal. Until an official opening is announced, treat Milcovul as a project in progress rather than a stop you can already put in your route planner.
What it means for drivers
For anyone driving an EV between north-eastern Romania and Bucharest, the A7 is the natural corridor, and a high-power stop near Focșani would split the journey neatly. At 150 kW or more per point, a modern EV can typically go from roughly 10–20% to 80% during a coffee break, depending on its charging curve and battery temperature.
Keeping car and truck chargers separate is a meaningful detail: on a busy day you will not be queuing for the same unit as a lorry that needs an hour on the plug. Until the site opens, keep planning around stations that are already working along the route and check availability in the operator's app before you set off. Once PPC blue announces opening dates and prices, compare them with other networks, because per-kWh tariffs can differ a lot between operators.
