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required to take us where we need to be over the next few decades , and put it to them to establish what we need to do in our facility to eventually have a 22 kilowatt charging point for every rigid on site .”
Fleete ’ s vision is to implement broader growth of EV charging infrastructure across the entire UK . One of its key offerings is an overriding single piece of management software , which will be able to run equipment developed by multiple manufacturers . Besides providing the operator with key information such as charging times , it will also allow for the automated control of different charging points .
“ As we ’ re looking to partner with Fleete on the software front , Zenobe is looking to be our partner for the hardware side ,” Chris concludes . “ The business already has a decade of experience in installing superchargers across different infrastructures , such as bus depots . It ’ s all part of our mission looking forwards . We want to continue to demonstrate how electrification of the industry is fully applicable now . We ’ ve started an urban consolidation center in our head office in Cambridge , from which EVs are currently the most applicable for last mile delivery . Our idea is that you consolidate everything outside of an urban area , we collect it all , and then move it onwards using EV vehicles . Ideally rigids , for the economies of scale . That ’ s why we invented the cart , right ? because you can ’ t deliver anywhere near as much if you ’ re just riding a horse .” ■
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