A community for quick charging of electrical vehicles is a key a part of the transition to extra sustainable heavy transportation. In Sweden, some 130 charging stations in complete are deliberate to open in 2023 and 2024. The stations are operated by a number of completely different corporations, and Volvo Vehicles is among the companions concerned.
Volvo Vehicles is now launching a brand new service that lets haulers discover and entry the charging stations. The service will first be launched in Sweden, with different markets in Europe and different components of the world to comply with.
“It is a actual breakthrough for the electrification of heavy transport. Our clients will have the ability to entry public quick chargers throughout Sweden, and consequently going electrical is less complicated than ever,” says Roger Alm, President of Volvo Vehicles.
The brand new service is open to all truck manufacturers and shows all charging stations appropriate for heavy responsibility automobiles, no matter who operates them. The person pays for charging through the brand new platform: within the close to future, reserving of charging time may also be doable.
“Clients will have the ability to receive dependable details about the place to search out charging stations for heavy electrical vehicles, and they are often assured that they’re paying a good market worth with no hidden charges. With the chance to plan the route forward in a great way and a minimal of administration, I’m satisfied that this is a crucial step in direction of making electrical vehicles much more common with fleet house owners,” says Roger Alm.
Volvo Vehicles is working carefully with cost level operators around the globe to develop the charging community and the service as seamlessly and rapidly as doable.
Volvo Vehicles, an integral a part of Volvo Group, can also be constructing charging infrastructure through Milence, a three way partnership fashioned with Daimler Truck and the Traton Group. The partnership will consequence within the set up and operation of at the least 1,700 high-performance inexperienced vitality charging factors on, and near, highways in addition to at logistics hubs throughout Europe. The infrastructure will provide charging to all heavy-duty battery electrical automobiles, no matter model.
That is how Volvo Vehicles’ charging service works:
– The charging service is a part of Volvo Join, Volvo Vehicles’ interface for digital providers.– The shopper can discover and pay for the charging through Volvo Join and a cell app. A digital map exhibits the charging stations and if they’re out there. Within the close to future reserving of charging time will likely be doable.– When arriving at a charging station, the shopper makes use of a card or a cell app for identification and to start out the charging.– The shopper receives one, consolidated bill.
Oct 8, 2023