In Europe, Mer Germany and Mer Options have merged underneath the Mer Germany GmbH model. In parallel, the Group is establishing Mer Austria GmbH for enterprise in Austria. In each circumstances, the corporate intends to drive the enlargement of charging infrastructure within the respective nations.
In Germany till now, Mer Options was accountable for private charging options, resembling for firm automotive fleets, for instance. Public charging choices got here from Mer Germany. Now, fleet options and the operation of charging stations are to be reconciled underneath the Mer Germany model. Fuhrmann and Otto Loserth are the brand new managing administrators of Mer Germany. The corporate emphasises that each one “rights and obligations […] stay unaffected by the merger.”
“By appearing as a single model in Germany, we’re underlining our ambition to develop into the German e-mobility system service supplier. We wish to additional advance the inexperienced power transition within the subject of personal and public charging infrastructure in addition to within the electrification of firm automotive fleets,” stated Günter Fuhrmann, Managing Director of Mer Germany GmbH. “The much more intensive cooperation will open up new views, challenges may be tackled in a brand new means, and options may be rethought.”
The Mer Group will even be working underneath a brand new title in Austria: Mer Austria GmbH. The purpose is to additional broaden its personal charging infrastructure in Austria. One other focus, he stated, is the enlargement of the fleet enterprise.
“The institution of Mer Austria underlines our development ambitions as a European EV model and lays the inspiration for the enlargement of our enterprise actions in Austria,” explains Anton Achatz, Managing Director of Mer Austria GmbH.
Mer was based in 2009 as Gronn Kontakt and has been lively as Mer since 2020. In Germany, the market entry passed off by way of acquisition. Statkraft took over the German supplier E-Wald in 2019, which initially continued to function underneath its personal model. It was then renamed Mer Options GmbH in the summertime of 2021.
The second German subsidiary was additionally renamed Mer Germany GmbH. In spring 2021, Statkraft acquired the Swedish supplier Bee Charging Options. In Austria, Mer has been lively since 2021 via a partnership with the quick meals chain McDonald’s.
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