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Bpifrance, France's public investment bank, co-invested alongside a DWS Group sustainable-investment fund (lead investor) in a EUR 100 million (~USD 117 million) funding round for WAAT, a French private EV-charging infrastructure operator focused on apartment buildings, social housing and commercial real estate. Existing shareholder RAISE Impact maintained its position. The funds are earmarked to scale WAAT's deployment toward 250,000 active charging points by 2030 and expand operations across Europe.

On 18 September 2025 the Bundestag adopted the Gesetz zur Errichtung eines Sondervermögens "Infrastruktur und Klimaneutralität" (SVIKG), authorising up to EUR 500 bn of additional federal borrowing over a twelve-year horizon outside the constitutional debt brake, on the basis of the new Article 143h Grundgesetz inserted by the March 2025 constitutional amendment. The envelope splits into up to EUR 100 bn for Länder and municipal infrastructure (channelled via the companion Länder- und Kommunal-Infrastrukturfinanzierungsgesetz, LuKIFG, passed 9 October 2025), EUR 100 bn transferred to the Klima- und Trans- formationsfonds (KTF) in annual instalments through 2034, and up to EUR 300 bn for additional federal investments in transport, energy/ heat, hospital, education, digitalisation, civil protection and R&D infrastructure. Investments are eligible retroactively from 1 January 2025 and may be approved through 31 December 2036; loan repayment begins no later than 1 January 2044. SVIKG is the largest single industrial-finance instrument launched by an EU member state in the post-2022 industrial-policy cycle.

Bpifrance, France's public investment bank, co-lent alongside ING (lead arranger), MUFG, ABN AMRO, Societe Generale, Rabobank, Caisse d'Epargne Hauts de France and Banque Populaire Val de France in a green loan facility of up to EUR 433 million (~USD 500 million) for Electra, a French ultra-fast EV-charging network operator. The facility comprises EUR 283 million in firm credit lines plus a EUR 150 million optional tranche, and funds Electra's expansion from 500+ to 2,200 charging stations (15,000 high-power points) across Europe by 2030. The financing takes Electra's total capital raised since founding past EUR 1 billion.

The UK's National Wealth Fund, the state-owned investment bank, provided GBP 25 million in debt financing to Osprey Charging, one of the UK's largest public EV rapid-charging networks, to accelerate its rollout of super-fast charging hubs. The NWF tranche forms part of Osprey's wider GBP 110 million multi-bank fundraise, alongside Novuna Business Finance, Societe Generale and Aldermore. It was announced on 15 July 2025.

On 9 August 2023 the German Federal Cabinet adopted the government draft Wirtschaftsplan 2024 of the Climate and Transformation Fund (Klima- und Transformationsfonds, KTF) and the accompanying 2024–2027 financial plan. The plan envisaged ca. EUR 211.8 bn of programme spending across 2024–2027 (EUR 57.6 bn in 2024 alone), funded by national and European emissions-trading revenues plus federal grants, with major lines for semiconductor production (~EUR 4.0 bn in 2024), hydrogen industry build-out (~EUR 3.8 bn), building renovation (~EUR 18.9 bn), EEG renewables support (~EUR 12.6 bn) and electric mobility. The KTF is the principal German federal vehicle for co-financing the EU Chips Act state-aid envelope, IPCEI Hydrogen, decarbonisation contracts (Klimaschutzverträge) and other net-zero-aligned industrial-policy subsidies.