Denmark just told us something important about electric vans: 30.9% of all new van registrations in 2025. Up from 15.3% the year before. That’s a market moving over its tipping point. And now what?
🛻 The van market is not the car market. The plumber, the electrician, the small logistics operator running spider-web routes, these people do not drive long distances. They drive local and regional, with a full load, and they stop where the job is. Of course they have a depot at their workshop. But more often their van is their depot. A mobile one.
🏢 With that they are fully dependent on destination charging. Charging where they work, where they park, where the job takes them. But todays destination charging is nowhere near what this group needs. It barely works for passenger cars outside Oslo or Cobenhavn.
🎰 For a van driver whose range is already squeezed by payload, and whose next stop is a building or construction site, the current patchwork of semi-public chargers is a gamble, every single day.
💥 I hear this from the trades in Switzerland, and I doubt Denmark or Norway is different: you lose public tenders today if your fleet is not at least part electric. Zero percent electric, you are out. Even if you are cheaper than others. The pressure is already there. The infrastructure to absorb it is not.
⁉️ What would need to come together?
Hardware at the right locations, built for commercial reality. Network operations that run reliably and stay accessible across operators. A customer layer that speaks the language of a business owner, not a commuter. And a location logic built around where trades actually work, not where residential buildings happen to be.
🤝 These capabilities exist. In different companies, in different products, each fighting their own corner. A hardware maker like Zaptec who understands buildings. A network operator like Uno-X Mobility AS with reach. A customer layer like Elton Mobility that knows how to build for the driver. None of them can do this alone. Together, they could build something the trades would actually use.
🔔 Yet keep in mind: The trades do not care about any of this. They are not waiting for an ecosystem to mature. They need their van charged when they need it, on location, so they can do the job, and keep winning work in a market that is already asking for their fleet numbers.
That is the price of entry. Time to give them a hand so both win.
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