Matthias Speicher
The grid connection just about covers one e-truck. For five it doesn’t, and fixed charging infrastructure is too expensive. I have to stay on diesel. 🛢️
🚧 The hurdles in electrifying heavy haulage are many. The trucks themselves no longer count among them. Beyond the shift in operations, in dispatch and processes, one topic dominates my conversations with operators: charging infrastructure, the kind in their own depot above all.
🔌 The grid connection was never meant for a fleet charging all at once overnight. Grid expansion takes months and costs serious money. And demand charges per kW pour in on top.
🚚 Here’s an answer to that, sitting on a hook-lift frame. The mobile charging solution from DRIV-E, built from practice for practice and for the needs of SME logistics.
A battery storage unit you pick up like a container and set down wherever charging is needed right now. Simple as that, with a hook-lift, a forklift or a container handler. The charging backpack holds the charge points, it moves, and it can be positioned exactly where it’s wanted. The AC cabinet delivers anything from 16 A to 630 A for whatever else needs power.
That changes the order in which an operator can even start. Energy stands in the yard before the grid expansion is decided. The storage unit arrives with the first truck. In the photo series you’ll see an electric Scania Group carrying the system piggyback.
I work with driv-e as an advisor, because the market needs exactly these kinds of solutions. And with storage, well, my German surname says it all. 😅