We spoke with Ekoenergtyka co-founder Maciej Wojenski about Poland’s difficult e-mobility and infrastructure market, the place Eko’s positioning is taking up a complete new spin these days. Simply this a lot – buses gained’t be the corporate’s major enterprise for for much longer.
First to Poland, the place 150,00 electrical automobiles share round 2,000 cost factors, in line with Maciej Wojenski. Ekoenergetyka noticed this potential as early as 2009 when Wojenski and Bartosz Kubik based the enterprise out of an educational analysis undertaking. They now make use of round 1,000 folks and declare 20% of Europe’s charging stations for municipal buses. In Poland, the share is 80%, with so-called Ultrachargers providing energy outputs between 750 kW and 1.5 MW. Public transport, says Wojenski, was Poland’s manner into eradicating emissions from town centres. Battery-electric buses stay at Eko’s core, he provides, for the reason that section requires a “excessive stage of engineering and customisation,” which the agency acquired through the years. “We nonetheless have it in our DNA.”
On the similar time, Eko realised town bus section was “one way or the other restricted in Europe” and Wojenski reveals shifting into the passenger EV section and, extra so, electrical vans. “We see, we will scale up our enterprise, particularly within the section associated to public charging of passenger EVs and, after that, vans.”
For this, the corporate needs to deal with heavy-duty OEMs straight. “We’re wanting very a lot into the electrification of e-trucks,” says the co-founder
The motion has not gone unnoticed. In September, the corporate revealed a robust partnership with Ionity and three different consumer-facing companies. The co-founder additionally mentions PKN Orlen, Poland’s most distinguished firm within the gas sector, which has labored with Eko on DC charging early on. “We’re shaping our technique increasingly for passenger EVs,” but it was additionally “powerful enterprise to turn out to be a provider for the CPOs,” he says.
Not less than at house, Ekoenergetyka claims 80% of the HPC market because it established its personal community, Ekoen, in 2021.
Wojenski nonetheless welcomes different CPOs in Poland since any market entry means “we will provide them with our {hardware}, our charging stations.”
Stated {hardware} is produced regionally. Ekoenergetyka manufactures roughly 10,000 chargers yearly, says the co-founder, and factors to Eko’s 2,000 sqm facility, about 200 kilometres from Berlin. However, so Wojenski, “We are going to attain near 30,000 chargers a yr within the close to future” via optimisation and enlargement.
The tip-to-end manufacturing is one USP, he mentions, together with mechanical, electrical and software program engineering. “We additionally make investments 50 million euros in our personal laboratory.” The R&D centre contains testing amenities from EMC over noise.
By way of positioning, Wojenski took the query actually: “We’re capable of ship high-quality merchandise to Western Europe and the CE areas” – thus far.
The founder revealed a future the place Ekoenergetyka is “among the many prime gamers, not solely in Europe but additionally worldwide”. Right here, Wojenski stored the most effective secret for final – Eko’s US enlargement is within the pipeline and will take at least two years.
Not less than at house, Ekoenergetyka claims 80% of the HPC market because it established its personal community, Ekoen, in 2021.
Wojenski nonetheless welcomes different CPOs in Poland since any market entry means “we will provide them with our {hardware}, our charging stations.”
Stated {hardware} is produced regionally. Ekoenergetyka manufactures roughly 10,000 chargers yearly, says the co-founder, and factors to Eko’s 2,000 sqm facility, about 200 kilometres from Berlin. However, so Wojenski, “We are going to attain near 30,000 chargers a yr within the close to future” via optimisation and enlargement.
The tip-to-end manufacturing is one USP, he mentions, together with mechanical, electrical and software program engineering. “We additionally make investments 50 million euros in our personal laboratory.” The R&D centre contains testing amenities from EMC over noise.
By way of positioning, Wojenski took the query actually: “We’re capable of ship high-quality merchandise to Western Europe and the CE areas” – thus far.
The founder revealed a future the place Ekoenergetyka is “among the many prime gamers, not solely in Europe but additionally worldwide”. Right here, Wojenski stored the most effective secret for final – Eko’s US enlargement is within the pipeline and will take at least two years.
Interview by Carla Westerheide at IAA Mobility, Munich.