Six Spanish cities receive EIB support on electric mobility infrastructure
EIB advisory support for electric mobility in Spain will focus on charging infrastructure, investment gaps, and rollout planning.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has launched a technical advisory service to support the rollout of electric charging infrastructure in six Spanish cities participating in the European Union’s Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission: Barcelona, Madrid, Seville, Valencia, Valladolid, and Zaragoza.
The agreement is intended to help the cities determine investment requirements for charging infrastructure and phase in deployment by 2030.
According to the EIB, the advisory support will focus on charging infrastructure for cars, vans, and light goods vehicles, while also encouraging broader integration of electric vehicles into urban transport systems.
The service helps cities identify investment gaps, develop public-private partnership approaches, and examine European funding mechanisms for sustainable mobility projects.
All six cities are part to the European Union Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission and hold the EU Mission Label for their climate plans and investment strategies. The agreement is also intended to support the exchange of best practices and replicable models that could be used elsewhere in Spain and across Europe.
Technical assistance under the agreement is not linked to EIB financing and instead centres on advisory work. This includes building project pipelines, analysing barriers to investment and rollout, encouraging collaboration between public authorities, private investors, and sector specialists, and monitoring impacts through agreed metrics.
The advisory work will be delivered with support from the SUEZ/IDOM consultancy consortium and is financed by the InvestEU Advisory Hub. In the background section, the EIB links the initiative to the wider Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission under Horizon Europe, which aims to support climate-neutral and smart cities by 2030 and use them as hubs for wider urban transition by 2050.
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