Find out about the world’s fastest and most powerful EV charging at next week’s Great British Fleet Event
Fleets attending next week’s Great British Fleet Event will be able to find out more about new HyperCharging technology – said to be the fastest and most powerful in the world.
As well as showcasing its technology at the Great British Fleet Event, Voltempo will take part in the Great British Fleet Event’s panel discussion on the future for shared mobility
Newly launched by UK-based Voltempo – a developer of EV technology – HyperCharging provides the next generation of rapid electric vehicle charging infrastructure suitable for electric cars, vans, trucks, HGVs and buses. And it will be showcased at the Great British Fleet Event on 29 March 2022 at Novotel London West.
The technology is set to transform the industry, as it can deliver 1,000kW of power – almost three times that of any comparable charging system. This means it can charge the next generation of electric vehicles in as little as six minutes. It also has the unique capability of being able to charge up to 24 vehicles at the same time.
The HyperCharging system can be installed anywhere – particularly in locations that need to charge a lot of vehicles at the same time, making it especially suitable for fleets. The technology’s modular system enables it to be installed 70% faster than other charging systems – in a matter of hours or days, rather than months. Its unique modular containerised design also brings a 90% reduction in groundworks.
Meanwhile, the installation costs are typically 30% lower, due to Voltempo’s patented centralised charging design, with a 50% faster return on investment than for other charging systems.
The technology also provides future-proof charging that can be upscaled at your own pace.
As well as showcasing its technology at the Great British Fleet Event, Voltempo will take part in the Great British Fleet Event’s panel discussion on the future for shared mobility. As part of the discussion, Michael Boxwell, Voltempo’s chief executive officer, will look at the considerations for fleets in the shift to mobility.
These are just some of the highlights of next week’s event – which will bring a packed 3-in-1 agenda of a bustling exhibition, informative Masterclass conference line-up and the afternoon’s Great British Fleet Awards.
For more details about the Great British Fleet Event on 29 March 2022, click here. Registrations are also open online and you can find the full conference list online too.
Natalie Middleton
Natalie has worked as a fleet journalist for over 20 years, previously as assistant editor on the former Company Car magazine before joining Fleet World in 2006. Prior to this, she worked on a range of B2B titles, including Insurance Age and Insurance Day.
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Victor Harman24. Mar, 2022
So one car, charging at 1,000kW, is going to be allowed to use as much as 30 households running at full 30kW blast? Crazy!
How will anyone decide which houses or factories are to be robbed of their power supply to feed these gargantuan power
grabbers, just to save their drivers taking a 15 minute coffee break?
Michael Boxwell25. Mar, 2022
Right now, there isn’t a car that can charge at 1,000kW. Our charging system would typically be used to charge 10-25 vehicles simultaneously at more conventional charging rates. In the future, charge rates will increase and we’ll see electric vehicles that are capable of charging in six minutes, which is only a minute or so longer than refuelling a conventional car. The overall amount of energy used for the same throughput of vehicles will remain constant – you’ll just have a smaller number of vehicles charging at any one time.
You are right though – you need a crazy amount of power to charge numbers of electric vehicles in one location, and that is a bigger problem that the whole industry has to solve. We have a patent-pending design that goes some way towards resolving this problem by managing multiple power sources – so you can combine the grid with a secondary source such as solar, batteries, a hydrogen generator and so on. The system can then combine these power sources to provide all the power required to charge vehicles quickly. Depending on the site and the power requirements, the system can prioritise one power source over another, or can even export locally produced power back to the grid.
An example of where this could be used would be a motorway service station. Most motorway services are in the middle of the countryside and actually have quite poor grid connectivity. Many of them have installed diesel generators to boost their grid connectivity already. A better solution could be to utilise some of the fields surrounding the motorway services for creating a solar farm with battery storage. Motorway services tend to be busy during the day and quiet at night, making solar a great fit for EV charging, and using battery storage to provide the additional power at night or to provide a buffer to boost the grid during the worst days of winter when solar is struggling to cope.