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Montpellier meeting

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Current state of pilot sites

November 2025

Introduction

Timeline for WP3

SAINT-MAXIMIN (France)

Saint Maximin pilot

🚛 Vehicle Specifications

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• Type: Light commercial vehicle (diesel van) retrofitted to electric power.
• Acquisition: Retrofitting a diesel vehicle into an electric one
• Payload Capacity: Up to 1400 kg.
• Specialization: Equipped with integrated refrigerated boxes for cold meal deliveries (removable cooling boxes also considered at this stage).

EXPECTED BY THE END OF NOV.2025 🡪 Experimentation will start as soon as we have the vehicle

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⚡ Charging Infrastructure

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• Type: 7,4 to 22 kW charging station with 2 ports.
• Availability: Accessible for various EVs, primarily the retrofitted van.
• Charging Method: Optimized smart charging, preferably during the night.

EXPECTED BY MID DECEMBER 2025

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🎯 Purpose & Use Case

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• Primary Goal: Last-mile deliveries of cold meals (prepared with fresh, local ingredients) to institutional beneficiaries (ESAT, day-care centers, schools canteens, etc.) from the Lycée Agricole Campus Provence Verte warehouse.
• Monitoring: Includes a telematics unit for data collection.
• Educational Component: Fosters knowledge dissemination on short-circuit food production, energy transition, and peri-urban innovation.

ON-GOING : t0 evaluation

Logistics organization by the Lycée won’t purely change : they are more oriented on greening their fleet, their products, their local partnerships. The global strategy is quite virtuous already but we will ask them.

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🗺️ Site Details

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• Location: Lycée Agricole Campus Provence Verte in Saint-Maximin
• Current Status: New building under construction allow to integrate electrical components and new charging points.
• Vehicle Fleet: Existing fleet includes models suitable for electric retrofit.

Saint Maximin pilot

On-site farm

Institutional beneficiaries (ESAT, day-care centers, schools, etc.).

Meals preparation

Goods warehouse storage

Order picking preparation

Vehicle loading

Deliveries

Approx. 100 km/day

Return journey

Ideally waste management

Local food producers

Lycée Campus Provence Verte

MONTPELLIER (France)

Montpellier pilot

• 7 food solidarity associations selected by call for interest (april)
• 1st pilot meeting in Montpellier Food Hub (25 april)
• 2 external service providers selected by call for tender to help us building the logistics pooling scenario and selecting a transport service provider (may-june)
• Evaluation T0 of the pilot (july)
• Call for tender to select the transport service provider (july)
• Selection of the transport provider (august-september)
• Launch of the first transport round (september ?)

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7 food solidarity associations selected by call for interest

April

June

July

1st pilot meeting in Montpellier Food Hub (25 april)

May

2 external service providers help us building the logistics pooling scenario and selecting a transport service provider

Evaluation T0 of the pilot

Selection of the transport service provider

August

September

1st mutualised logistics round

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Next step : selection of the transport provider

Picture : Vrac et Cocinas (potential tester)

• Analysis of the offers based on a grid established with an external service provider
• Individual interviews the 1st week of september
• Selection the 2nd week of september
• First mutualised round the 3rd week of september

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Graphic view of Montpellier’s pilot

SENIGALLIA (Italy)

Senigallia pilot

Picture : Vrac et Cocinas (potential tester)

• Goal: Introduce low-emission logistics for local food supply chain

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• Infrastructure and equipment:
• 2 refrigerated smart lockers (12 boxes each)
• Electric cargo bike (250W motor, 100kg load)
• Digital platform (consumer front-end, farmer web app, back-end)

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• Impacts: Economic (local food consumption), Environmental (emission reduction), Social (producer–consumer links)

Current Status

• Lockers: Tender closed → delivery expected by Dec 2025

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• Software: Tender ongoing

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• Cargo bikes: Tender publication planned by Sep 2025

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• Site: Identified at cooperative “Ridotti bene”, requires adaptation

Main Issues

• Urban planning restrictions in city center

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• Adaptation of cooperative outdoor space needed

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• Stakeholder engagement: Producers and consumers need onboarding & training

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• Coordination challenge: Synchronizing software, lockers, and logistics deployment

Timeline�

• Sep 2025: Cargo bike tender publication.

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• Dec 2025: Lockers delivery + full system deployment

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• Jan–Jun 2026: Testing & monitoring (6–9 months)

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• From October 2026 onwards: Promotion, stakeholder training, scaling

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CARCAIXENT (Spain)

Pilot Carcaixent

• Electric Vehicule Charging station
• Located next to Carcaixent Mercat Municipal. 22 kW Power.

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• 100% electric Van
• Tendered with minimum volume and weight requirements according to interviews with merchants
• Tendered with minimum autonomy and power requirements based on the logistics circuit

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• PV Plant
• Designed to build in the Carcaixent football field stands.
• 40 kW Power. The energy produced will cover the charging station's demand and, in the event of surplus production, any other electricity demand from local public facilities.

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• Logistic Circuit
• Provided free of charge by staff of Carcaixent City Council

Charging station for EV

• Power 22 kW
• Located on public street
• Use only by authorised vehicles with RFID card

• Connection to the electric company is pending
• Fulfillment and start-up planned for mid September 2025

100% Electric Van

CURRENT SITUATION

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• Tender published on the state procurement platform

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• Last day for receiving offers: 14/08/2025. 3 offers received

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• 04/09/2025, the bids will be reviewed and the contract awarded

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• Van delivery scheduled for November 2025.

100% Electric Van

• Minimum volume and weight requirements
• Storage capacity more than 6 m3
• Maximum load more than 1,000 kg

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• Minimum autonomy and power requirements
• Lithium-ion battery with capacity between 50 kWh and 65 kWh
• Minimun power 85 kW / 116 hp
• Battery with AC and DC charging capabilities
• Standard 6-meter charging cable (Mode 3, Type 2, 32 A)

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• Others requirements
• TAS/Garage located until 50 km away from Carcaixent
• Vehicle warranty of 2 years / Battery warranty of 8 years or 160,000 km
• Delivery time less than 5 months

PV PLANT

• Designed to build in Carcaixent football field stands

• Designed with 40 kW Power (50,16 kWp)
• Project drafting at 90%
• Tender scheduled for September 2025
• Fulfillment and start-up planned before December 2025

LOGISTIC CIRCUIT

• Carcaixent City Council, in January-2026 will create a New public service of sustainable last-mile agri-food distribution, totally free of charge.

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• Carcaixent City Council will maintain the delivery service under the same conditions once the GARDEN project is completed.

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• Carcaixent City Council staff will be responsible for collecting the products from local shops in the Municipal Market, to be delivered final customers.

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• Initially, the delivery service will be provided three times a week, although this may be increased/reduced depending on demand.

HERAKLION (Greece)

Heraklion pilot site: Intervention

• Pilot site: Heraklion’s Central Food Market (CFM)
• Intervention: purchase of a light-duty electric vehicle and a charging station
• Main goals:
• Reduction of emissions and fuel costs from the distribution of the Heraklion CFM’s products
• Monitoring of energy and environmental impacts in the CFM
• Familiarization of the market’s stakeholders with electromobility in the logistics of food distribution.

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Service area

• Service area and indicative travel locations of the EV

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Charging station installation location

• Within the CFM (point 5)
• Criteria: Availability of suitable Point of Delivery (PoD), proximity to CFM main building, sufficient space, safety

Investment

• Location 5-PoD of adjacent storage room will be used
• Processes regarding the modification of the PoD are on going

Main technical specifications

Electric vehicle

• Van (without refrigeration system)
• Payload: 1200 kg
• Cargo Volume: 6,6m^3
• Energy Consumption: ≤ 21 kWh/100 km (WLTP)
• Range: 335 km/charging (WLTP)
• Battery capacity: 64 kWh
• Charging time ≤ 8h

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Main technical specifications

Charging station

• 22 kW AC
• Probably pedestal
• Charging mode: Mode 3
• All necessary safety features
• Network connectivity
• Compatibility with electric vehicle

Pilot’s investment current state

Heraklion pilot site: Intervention

• Pilot site: Heraklion’s Central Food Market (CFM)
• Intervention: purchase of a light-duty electric vehicle and a charging station
• Main goals:
• Reduction of emissions and fuel costs from the distribution of the Heraklion CFM’s products
• Monitoring of energy and environmental impacts in the CFM
• Familiarization of the market’s stakeholders with electromobility in the logistics of food distribution.

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WP.2 + WP3 workshop :��what are the key learnings from�the pilot construction period ?

KEY LEARNINGS - discussions

• What would be the needs of first-timer / for replicability interest ?

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• What would be the main messages we would like to transmit from our experiences ?