One of Australia’s largest electric vehicle charging networks will be established under a partnership announced on July 3.
California-based EV Connect is joining St Baker Energy Innovation Fund backed Australian company Evie Networks as they build an ultra-fast highway charging network aimed at connecting Australia’s major capital cities.
Evie Networks will use EV Connect’s EV Cloud platform to deploy and manage a network of 42 sites and more than 80 new ultra-fastTritium charging stations in their first phase network.
The Evie network will leverage the company’s EV charger deployment experience and EV Connect’s charging data analytics and station uptime management to enable drivers, fleet owners, distributors, and retailers to go electric.
“EV Connect is the most experienced charging software developer in the market, and we are putting that expertise and the EV Connect platform to work with our partners to build a clean, safe, convenient, and dependable EV charging network across the cities, towns, and highways of Australia,” Evie Networks chief executive officer Chris Mills says.
“Based in one of the most mature EV markets in the world, EV Connect brings the experience and capability to reliably connect with a wide range of charging stations and vehicle models. We saw this as critical to providing the dependable charging experience that we want for Australian drivers and partners.”
EV Connect provides a cloud-based software platform for managing networks of EV charging stations, their interaction with utilities, and the driver experience. The collaboration with Evie Networks in Australia will help set up a seamless highway network of city-to-city transport for EV drivers and EV fleet operators by increasing the number of chargers in Australia exactly where they are needed.
The EV Connect platform allows network operators like Evie Networks to manage everything from a single EV charging site to networks of hundreds of site operators with many thousands of sites and ports under management.
“For Australia to fully realise all the benefits of EVs, we have to reduce range and charging anxiety by giving drivers access to charging and information about chargers, no matter where they travel,” EV Connect founder and chief executive officer Jordan Ramer says.
The ultra-fast chargers will be at select highway locations across Australia and give EV drivers a charging experience similar to that of refuelling a conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle.
Visit www.goevie.com.au/ for more information.
