Proviridis is a enterprise companion of Kempower in France and is aware of the Finnish charging station producer’s expertise. Nevertheless, when planning a charging system at its personal website in Saint Quentin Fallavier, Proviridis confronted the problem of retrofitting the prevailing automobile parks with charging factors. House was restricted, and the parking areas within the ‘multi-energy truck station’ had been for use by each diesel tractor models and electrical vans.
As there was no house on the bottom for giant charging factors, the companions testes an underground resolution as an alternative choice to a overhead charging level resolution. The management unit from Kempower is put in in a shaft between the parking areas and the charging cable is stowed in a strong steel pipe. For the check set up, it’s painted in a putting yellow color in order that it’s straightforward to see when manoeuvring. The 600 kW energy unit is positioned just a few metres away (as is common for Kempower) and related to the charging satellites by cable.
In keeping with Kempower, one other benefit is safety towards harm if the management unit is hidden underground. In any other case, the set-up corresponds to a typical Kempower system: the ability unit can provide as much as eight chargers – no matter whether or not it’s the underground management unit or the acquainted charging satellites. A combination can be doable, relying on the necessities of the parking house.
Kempower describes the profitable check as “the primary instance of an underground resolution getting used to beat the impediment of house limitation at truck charging places, and provides a less expensive various to procuring and putting in the overhead gantry resolution presently used at many logistics depots.” Nevertheless, the precise price of the set up just isn’t specified. It may thus rely upon the placement in query as as to whether the extra intensive civil engineering work is definitely cheaper than a gantry system. On a aspect be aware: it was designed in order that it will also be used at a bus depot.
“Many fleet operators are dedicated to extra sustainable operations, however they require options that keep the capability and regular functioning of their places with a purpose to shield their enterprise,” says Cédric Moret, Kempower’s Head of Gross sales for the French market. “It has sadly grow to be commonplace for some lack of parking house to grow to be normalized when putting in charging infrastructure, which is why we’re so excited by the brand new prospects created with Proviridis’ underground resolution.”
Olivier Verdu, Technical Director at Proviridis, provides: “The product is sturdy throughout a large spectrum of temperatures and circumstances, requires minimal air flow, and may cater for a variety of buyer wants. These are options which completely place the Kempower resolution for this sort of charging configuration in a logistics setting.”
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