BRISBANE-BASED EVOS has unveiled its new SB7 7kW AC dwelling and workplace EV charger this week, the Australian designed and made unit providing typical electrical automobiles as much as 35km of driving vary per hour.
With an inbuilt power administration system EVOS says “the system can intuitively choose the best idle time to cost the car”, the SB7 will likely be distributed by Ampol Australia, and is offered alongside the Fleet Dwelling 22 unit unveiled final 12 months.
“We have designed this not solely from the view of ‘how will we cost a car’, but in addition from the view of the client,” mentioned EVOS CEO and co-founder, Marcelo Salgado.
“We requested ourselves what the EV proprietor wants from a charger: it must be straightforward to put in with no restrictions as to the place it could possibly go on a property, be straightforward to observe remotely and assist them handle their prices in an period when everybody is worried with power costs, and it has to look good.”
The SB7 could also be put in indoors and outdoor and could also be “monitored from anyplace” because of a built-in smartphone app, and in keeping with EVOS chief know-how officer and co-founder, Chris Crossman, will assist cut back most of the challenges at present dealing with Australian EV homeowners.
“The most important concern for electrical car homeowners, fleet operators and strata firms will not be the charging, however the administration of power,” he mentioned.
“Every of these segments options their very own distinctive challenges, however the problem that unites all of them is the power piece: particularly, is there a strategy to optimise power and decrease prices amid hovering power costs?
“We’ve regarded to handle this in our know-how roadmap, whereas making certain that these sub-sectors and their distinctive challenges are addressed with every product iteration, together with the SB7.”
Constructed with UV stabilised ABS plastic, the EVOS charger is designed to face up to the Australian solar and climate. The unit is IP65 rated and is Wi-Fi connection succesful, making certain EVOS and/or the house owner can monitor and management the charger, whereas software program updates could be made over-the-air (OTA) to “preserve the charger always on the innovative”.
The EVOS driver app permits drivers to observe the SB7 and the price of EV charging. The free app permits customers to arrange totally different cost schedules, whereas the SB7 could be built-in to the EVOS Grid Integration System (GID – to be accessible early-2024) and allow drivers to utilise their power higher by selecting between photo voltaic or battery charging, offering dynamic load administration and optimising tariff choice.
EVOS says the design of the SB7 charger additionally ensures information safety is positioned on the forefront, using an end-to-end VPN to allow a non-public and encrypted community that robustly safeguards person privateness.
Earlier this month, EVOS introduced it had secured $5 million in a subsequent capital elevate, throughout which the launch of the SB7 was highlighted because the “subsequent cab off the rank” for the corporate, which designs and manufactures its EV charging merchandise in Brisbane.
Now, EVOS is seeking to take its merchandise to new markets, whereas persevering with to concentrate on the event of its roadmap of superior EV applied sciences and additional increasing its crew of engineers and designers.
“Fixing that concern for fleet operators proved to the market that we perceive the challenges confronted by EV drivers, and that we perceive methods to handle them,” mentioned EVOS chief expertise and innovation officer, Seshan Weeratunga.
“The SB7 resolves numerous complications for EV homeowners, and the following merchandise on the EVOS horizon will equally handle the ache factors EV drivers face throughout the nation and, quickly, overseas.”
