The format
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The conversation
Host A — We start from one source: the article on TEN-T corridor progress under AFIR. Not a survey, a close reading.
Host B — The date that matters is the end of 2026 on the core network: pools of at least 400 kW, with at least one 150 kW point, about every 60 km. The subject is not the charger count. It is whether the pool can be reached, paid for without a subscription, and read in real time.
Host A — The source splits three groups. Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden move on networks that were already dense. Spain, Italy and Poland still miss the 60 km spacing where terrain and permits slow the grid connection. France moves through motorway concessions. Belgium has to align three regions.
Host B — And the software? A pool that exists on a map is not enough. Ad hoc payment, status and price have to leave the CSMS for the national access points. Without a consistent OCPP layer, a mixed estate loses sessions and data. The source says it: compliance becomes an orchestration problem, not only a civil-engineering one.
Host A — So the useful move for an operator is the gap: power, payment, data. Then the protocol. A site that does not speak the same OCPP as its neighbour cannot be run as a corridor.
Host B — We stop there. One source, two readings: the regulatory calendar, and the system that has to make it observable. The rest is in the article, not in a second source.